Super Sunday

So today was one of the most eventful Sundays I've had in awhile. It was our last Sunday going to church all together as roommates (well, minus Kristin) so we decided to end with a bang. This morning, I made German pancakes with fruit and whipped cream for everyone. For dinner, Arianna prepared a roast with carrots, potatoes and onions that cooked while were at church. We also wrapped potatoes and carrots in tin foil to cook so they wouldn't touch the meat because Manju is a vegetarian (something I could NEVER be). We invited Ally and Marjorie (but Ally forgot and made plans to go home) and Rylee's cousin came. We moved the table to the living room and used Arianna's nice plates (she was the only one that had enough matching plates). We made the table look as fancy as we could with what [random] little we had. I attempted to make gravy (no one else wanted to) and it turned out okay. Could've been better, but it was my first time so I'd call it a success. Everyone ate it. There was also a salad. For dessert, Marjorie brought us chocolate chip banana muffins. They were yummy! It was a nice and fun dinner that really made us feel like a little family. I'm glad my roommate situation has taken a complete 180 from last year.

Arianna and Manju's home teachers came over at 5:00. Chas is one of them, he's pretty awesome. I've written about him before. Anyway, I sat in because my home teachers haven't come this semester. I don't even know their names. Well, I know one, but not the other. Chas brought over his guitar and played What a Wonderful World and we all sang along. That was pretty much the lesson. He said it kind of goes with the resurrection. Isn't he a cool home teacher? He may not be conventional, but at least he gets the job done.

Around 6:30, I decided to take a nap. I had been running on four hours of sleep. Last  night I was feeling tired around midnight, but Manju was talking on the phone and I didn't want to kick her out. By the time she was done talking (sometime after one), the tired feeling had passed. I tried to fall asleep, but I couldn't. After laying in bed for over an hour, I tried listening to my iPod, but it didn't work. The last time I looked at the time before falling asleep was around 4:30. I'm one of those people where I'm awake if I'm woken up from sleeping, even if I'm tired. I can't go back to sleep right away. Sometimes I can, but not usually. If I'm tired, but don't go to sleep, the feeling fades and I'm stuck staying awake for a while.

 So I fell asleep and I was woken up (by Manju, Arianna told me she didn't planning on waking me up cause she knew how tired I was) to be asked if I wanted to go with them to fly Chas's plane that he made for a class. I had only been asleep for 10 minutes! I have to admit, I seriously wanted to cry because I was so tired and had finally gotten to sleep, only to be woken up right away. I said no initially, but because of my weird sleeping problems (ugh!), I couldn't fall back to sleep so I decided to go. They could tell I was a little annoyed (understatement).

We went behind the temple to the same place we go ice blocking to fly his plane. The steep hills did not make collecting the plane fun once it landed (more like crashed). We had a few okay flights and then Arianna took over the control. She crashed it and it broke. We all laughed, except Arianna. She felt so bad, but Chas had already gotten it graded and he said it was an easy fix so it was all good.

Chas with his dead plane.

What made flying the plane even better was that Chas's friend who also came (and helped build the plane) read President Uchtdorf's talk titled, "Of Things That Matter Most" (October 2010 Conference). Why? Because he mentions a plane [no surprise there :)] so it justified going to fly a plane on Sunday. 

All in all it was a great day, except for being dead tired and woken up right after falling asleep.