New development

Oh, fall break. What are we going to do with you... This past weekend was fall break. I thank God for the extra 24 hours we had off. It's amazing how much more we could do because of the extra day. A group of 8 of us went to Chicago (and Naperville) for the weekend. Thursday we left after classes and Rachel, Luke, Phil, Jenna and I stopped for dinner and a soak at Phil's house in the country. We rode horses and had amazing lasagna. The picture is of luke riding a horse, not of us eating lasagna.


We left there and went to Jenny's house in cozy Naperville. Friday morning we got up as we pleased and hopped on the 12:30 train for Chicago. Once downtown we walked around and hit up some local shops. These are shops you really can't get anywhere else folks. Old Navy... Gap. cripes, it made the whole trip worth it. But seriously, I enjoyed it. I got to eat with Larry, and it was great catching up with him.

Saturday had no plans in store until at about 11:30 when Jenny said that she was going to go to Target with her mom. All of the other girls wanted to go as well. Of course, why not? They hit up Target, Gap and Old Navy! Phil Luke and I were left high and dry. We tried to think if our relative upset-ness was justified, and we really couldn't find any Biblical foundation for being upset. But there is no doubt the act was shady. And I digress. I am continually amazed at the differences between girls and guys. Yeah, shopping and football... everyone knows about those differences, but here's one that was interesting for me to explore mentally this weekend. What would have happened if the guys would have, let's say, wanted to play basketball two days in a row. I really think the girls would have shaken it off. Us guys, on the other hand took it fairly personally. Maybe a little too personally. I believe the girls would have just brushed their shoulders off and had a good time... (this is where I start to make my point) I think girls are more self sufficient than guys are. Now, hear me out. Maybe it is just my group of friends, but it seems like the guys ALWAYS make the plans and make sure the girls are included. Even money says if the girls make the plan there's a chance guys are not involved. I've been on the bad end of many a girls weekend/night/party/movie/talk/etc. As we were stewing about how we got a raw deal, we kinda realized that we as guys make a good effort, it is seldom reciprocated. This is all fine with me if that's the way it's "supposed" to be with the guys pursuing the girls (relationally or otherwise), but if not, I feel like we are getting a raw deal. It's our own fault too. We have trained them into believing we will be there all the time. We have visited people at their workplace, we have watched every colts game at their house, we eat dinner over there atleast once a week. So, the question persists... "would we be friends still if the guys didn't put forth an effort?" Well, only time will tell. As of now, it's not looking all sorts of promising.