Dragshow, Hockey, Dinner, Parents and Urgency care.

Time to do another stats list. This time the theme is "I have never ... before I came to the US". (there's a lot more than this, but I can't think of any more right now)

• I've never seen seven different kinds of M&M's on the same shelf before I came to the US
• I've never driven an automatic car before I came to the US(I'm buying one of those when I can afford it)
• I've never been at an urgency care/health center three times in a span of two days + a pharmacy before I came to the US (of what i can remember)
• I've never been to a drag show before I came to the US
• I've never eaten Mac'n'Cheese before I came to the US
• I've never seen a traffic sign saying "Bridge may be icy", which is up all year around, before I came to the US

Last couple of days have, as usually, been busy and filled with stuff. There is always more to do over the weekends when Jess is off school on Fridays and we have three full days to do what we'd like to, apart from studying of course!

Clocktower, GVSU

Our weekend started off with a drag show on Thursday evening. It was organized through Jess' school so we headed over there with Alyssa, Jess' roommate and her 2 friends. It was the first time I went to a drag show and it was fun and funny. Tho some of the performers could have worked a bit harder with their stage time, but at least they had the guts to do it. I'd never be brave enough to do what they did. The host was hilarious of and on and changed outfits from a diva dress, to a rainbow dress and finally an avatar costume. After the show me and Jess decided to walk around a bit at campus so I could take photos in the dark. It was a bit scary, because we had also said no to the drive back to the house. Meaning we had to walk among this road which has no lights and there's a bit of traffic. We made it back in two pieces tho. 

Lobster dinner

Friday we had decided to make a nice dinner, because Saturday would be our seven-months-together-day, but we were gonna meet Jess' parents then. We had plans of having lobster tails, but when we got to the store Nick said we could buy a whole lobster and cook it because that'd be cheaper. And so we did! It was an experience I'm more than happy to have gone through. It was a bit scary to put the little guy in the water, but eating him was delicious! Definitely doing this again. Later on that night, we went to watch GVSU's girls hockey team because Jess is a mentor for international students and one of them is playing for the team. What a coincidence that girl is also Swedish! Hehe, so we went over there but Kajsa didn't play sadly. She's one of three goalkeepers so I guess it was her turn to sit on the bench so the other two could play. We left after the first period with GVSU in a safe 4-0 lead, which came to a total of 11-0 when the game had ended. They met the same team the day after and won with 9-0. Champions right there!

Croton Dam (Jess and her mom)

And then the big day came, time to meet the parents. I was so nervous at first, and was nervous for a pretty long time. But her parents are really nice and I had a good time. We had planed to go downtown to see ArtPrize, and go to an apple farm and pick apples, but we ended up going north on a little road trip. The country is beautiful up there with a lot of colorful trees and lakes. We stopped at a place called Croton Dam which is huge! Crossing over the dam, you get under the water level and it's kind of amazing and scary at the same time. We drove around a bit up there and then headed back towards Grand Rapids, where we stopped on the way to eat which was a buffet and we almost died from eating.

Our room, clost to the left where
Jess temporary lives

Then Sunday something terrible happened. Jess fell asleep with her contacts and woke up with an eye infection. It got so bad her parents had to pick us up so we could go to the urgent care in Walker. Jess didn't get any medicine there because they said the pain would be gone to 75% tomorrow(Monday). Well, that didn't happen. Non of us got any sleep last night and the pain was even worse today. So at 9am I had to drive Jess to the Health Center at GVSU so she could hopefully get some prescription on eye drops to make it better and so she did. Off to the pharmacy and back and now it's a lot better. She can actually see and keep her eyes open for long times instead of laying in the closet where it's pitch black or having to wear a towel over her head when there's just a tiny bit of light.

We also had Wendy's in Walker.