And the madness ensues...

I am writing from Staci Mae's apartment in Cedar Rapids. She is sleepy and Tauna and I are updating our blogs before we head out to see Shrek 3. With all of these graduations happening, my life is crazy these days! Thursday night I drove to Des Moines to hang out with Wendy and Clint and we watched the season finale of Grey's Anatomy (holy crap!). Then yesterday I came up to CR with my parents to help Natalie pack up her apartment at Mount Mercy. In the afternoon we went to Nancy's soccer game and then all went out to dinner at Peking Buffet to celebrate Natalie's graduation.

And today was the big day. After departure time drama at the Palof house (Dad always has to worry about parking and finding a seat, you know!), we finally made it to the US Cellular Center and saw Natalie graduate from Mount Mercy College. Way to go Natalie!!

And then we went to the party on the hill...

After a trip to the Marion Summer Arts Festival, I went back to Andreas House to help Natalie and Kevin keep packing. Eventually, Tauna called...

We both decided on Happy Joe's because there is no Happy Joe's in Minnesota or in Nebraska. Tauna's friend Ginger was visiting too. Tauna hasn't been to Mount Mercy in three years and of course wanted to come in. She talked me in to walking up to B5:

We held the doorbell down for awhile but nobody answered. Then Tauna decided Ginger needed to see the tunnels...
On the way, we discovered that they have now put art up in the Andreas House hallways... Tauna was confused by this.

So we went to the tunnels, but they were locked. We decided to take Ginger up to the penthouse instead.

On the way, Tauna remembered that some of us B5ers as sophomores had written on the wall between the elevator doors.

So between the 4th and 5th floors, we opened them up...

But then the door wouldn't shut all the way. And the elevator wouldn't move. And we were stuck. And laughing.

Tauna called switchboard. "We're stuck in the elevator." The phone kept automatically redialing. "We're alumni and we're stuck in the elevator." The phone called switchboard again. "Will you please tell Mindy Chrisman that we got stuck in the elevator?" The guy transferred us. She wasn't home.

Security came surprisingly quickly and let us out. We were all laughing hysterically. Ginger had quite an exciting visit to our alma mater.