A maze of maize



Spiders don't stand a chance when Lauren and Emily are on duty!



If you see graduate students acting out in goofy, immature, and slap happy moods...chances are they had an intense week of school.  Since week 1/2 of testing was this past week, we had a few minutes of easy laughs this weekend at the Triple B.  (Triple B, or the Blonde Bombshell Bungalow, is my roommates and my duplex)

First on deck is taking care of the monster spider and her creepy web on the front porch.  Thank goodness for dads who arm their daughters with intense bug spray and brooms!  None of us like waking up to spiders in the morning or having them surprise when we come home at night. 



Trying on the dress for the wedding

 Today was a much needed day away from the books, highlighters and notes and a lot of fun!  First up was a bridesmaid dress appointment for Emily's wedding next summer. (yeah for pretty blue dresses) Emily and I became friends our sophomore year at Rockhurst over Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy notes and Physics experiments.  4.5 years later (and 3.5 of those years living together), we still find great adventures and she is one of my very best and closest friends! I am so blessed to have her as a friend and so excited for her and Andy and their wedding in July! (I have some seriously mad dance skills and have been awarded shortest wedding party member, lol)

Then came the 9 acre corn maze in Liberty, MO....where the paths add up to 8 miles of walking!  Emily and I met up with 2 first year students from the program to forge through the stalks.  Thank goodness Emily and Erica are good with maps because Dawn and I are both very directionally challenged.  After 2 turns we became the moral support and comedic relief of the expedition.  I also had a very interesting realization.  So in movies you often see the actors running quickly through the corn away from the bad guy and come out simply winded.  NOT POSSIBLE!  Rows of corn are very close together; therefore if someone was running through a field of corn I have decided the following: they would get hit in the face, with husks of corn, over and over.  It would not be pretty. 

Map of the maze and punches along the way

The fun thing about this giant maze is the annual theme.  In the past they have been Chiefs, Royals, Boarder Wars (mizzou vs KU), and Power and Light.  This year the theme was around the Comets, the indoor soccer team in Kansas City.  There are four different paths and 24 stations to find and get the punches. Thank goodness they gave us a map! After a lot of walking, a few hours, and a few wrong turns, we got all 24 punches.

Starting tomorrow it is the week of musculoskeletal...tests over manual tests, mobilizations, biomechanics, and disorders of the arm/leg joints, and lower spine.  Is it Friday yet?!  Happy October!


Erica, me, Dawn, and Emily at the Comets themed Corn Maze