A weekend with Sara and Jen

In which Sara learns to drive stick and is pulled over by the police in a single evening

As noted in the title of this post, I spent a very enjoyable Friday evening and Saturday morning with my awesome buds Jennifer and Sara. Highlights of the weekend:

• Cleaning Jen's apartment.
  Jennifer had to run to Provo to do some chores for her cleaning check Saturday morning. I offered my help, but Jen told me it was her job anyway and Sara insisted that since I'd already worked eight hours that day, she would help Jennifer. So I ate ice cream and supervised. Until Sara accidentally spilled an entire cup of grease (collected over the past month) onto the kitchen floor, creating a slippery, super bad-smelling but manageable mess. I sent Sara, who was gagging at the smell, out of the room while I cleaned up as much as I could. It was nice to be useful, even if the job was unpleasant. Sara came back in and finished the job. If you ask me, she had the harder task- trying to erase the smell and wiping up the remaining grease splatters. After she finished cleaning the bathroom, Jen did what she could to help with the smell, too. We left a note to her roommates explaining the lingering smell in the kitchen before going back to Sara's house for dinner.
• Dinner and dessert, made by Sara
  Yum!
• In which Sara learns to drive stick...
  As if homemade apple and cheese strudel wasn't dessert enough after our dinner of beans and sauerkraut, Sara directed us to a nearby supermarket for some Italian gelato (delicious!), after which I drove Jen's car to a church parking lot and Sara received her first lesson in stick shift, courtesy of none other than Jennifer. They were only about two minutes into the lesson when a cop car pulled into the parking lot behind us and came to investigate the "suspicious car with California license plates." He was nice when we told him about the stick shift lesson and even joked with Jennifer about the superiorities of Cali compared to Utah, and the three of us took great pleasure in telling the story to Sara's parents when we got back for the night. (Sara learned fast; after about an hour of practicing in the parking lot, she felt prepared enough to drive back to her home.)
• Watching "McLintock" before bed
• Playing Super Smash Brothers Saturday morning, and the pancakes Sara's sister Mary so graciously made for us.

That about covers it. I'm lucky to have such fun friends. :)