Last night was pretty much the best night of my life. I would never have imagined that I would be happy to have had my chapter closed, but last night would never have happened if we were still open.

I moved into my apartment a little over a week ago, in with three other lovely ladies, whom I will treasure as true friends for the rest of eternity. Their names are Amy, Abigail, and Heather. We also have many amazing sisters that come over and visit a lot. One of them, Robin, was over and we decided that we wanted to have a Pina Colada night. And thus Saturday night was approaching, and I called up many of my fantastic buddies and invited them to come and participate in the evening.

What we'd initially had in mind was a night of Pina Coladas and chick flicks--pretty laid back, but so much fun. Well, once everyone was over and we were watching a chick flick TV show on DVD (Freaks and Geeks?), I realized I really didn't feel like watching anything on a screen. So when I realized that we didn't have nearly enough ice made to make delicious Pina Coladas and Daiquiris, I didn't hesitate to seize the opportunity to make a temporary escape and get some ice. I asked if anyone wanted to come with me, and two girls did--Erin and Jessica.

So we hopped in my car and started heading over to King Soopers, when Erin mentioned that she'd been on a run that day, and while she was running, had come up with the crazy idea of all of us dressing up as goofy made-up superheros and making a coffee-table booklet of our "rescues" and "adventures." I told her it was a brilliant idea, and we decided we were going to go to a thrift store and pick up stuff for everyone.

So we turned around and drove to ARC Thrift Store and looked at many hilarious possibilities, and finally went to the checkouts just before they closed. We got a few cell phone calls inquiring as to where the heck we were and what was taking so long, but we told them we'd run into a few complications and would be back in a few minutes.

Then, we picked up ice, and headed back.

I wasn't sure if everyone would be into it. I mean, it was pretty crazy--and not everyone can be expected to be into that kind of thing. When I put on my outfit and modeled it for everyone, I wasn't sure if everyone approved--but before I knew it, everyone was trying on the stuff we had, and taking stuff from our closets and other people's closets, and ultimately putting together the most hilarious superhero outfits ever. While everyone was getting dressed, I made the drinks (with sufficient amounts of ice, of course) and had my own delicious Pina Colada. Then, I put my hair into pigtails, and then applied bold makeup much more liberally than usual.

Then, one more girl came...Susanne. She didn't feel up to par, so she decided to be our official photographer. Yay!

So we went to the front lawn and took a few group pictures in various obnoxious poses.

From there, we decided to walk over to our president's apartment, since she lived in the same apartment complex, and as we went we sang Theta songs, and I'm sure we sounded DRUNK. Funny thing was, none of us were. Most of us had virgin drinks, and the most anyone had alcoholic was two non-virgin drinks. So did we have any real excuse for our behavior? Naw. We were just awesome. I love my sisters!

So we sang our silly songs and showed up at our chapter president's apartment (her name is Shannon.) She turned out to be having a Margarita night at her place, so we got to see even more sisters. Oh yeah! Then, we went to our other sister Kat's apartment, who was also in the same apartment complex. At that point, the sprinklers had started running, so we had to run through the sprinklers to get to her front door. It took some persuading to get certain individuals to go through, LOL. She rooms with a couple guys and also had another guy over--I hope we didn't scare them! We were CRAZY. So we visited with them for a while, then decided to head back to my apartment to take more pictures. As I was going through the sprinklers, though, I definitely tripped, ate it, scraped up my knee, and got stuck giggling right in the middle of the sprinklers. Definitely hilarious. Jessica couldn't stop laughing and felt so bad. She said "It's not funny, I'm sorry!" But really, it was. She's so cute.

Then, this guy in an apartment nearby who was just outside his front door asked us if we were freshmen and why the heck our sorority was making us do this. I'm not quite sure he believed us that none of us were freshmen and that we'd done this entirely on our own prerogative.

While we were walking back, I decided I was hyper enough to start singing in Elmo voice...within seconds, I kid you not, we turned a corner and ended up very nearly face-to-face with the security guard for the apartment complex. He asked us what party we were going to, and for some reason he believed us when we told him the truth. We weren't having a party. We were just sorority sisters taking ridiculous pictures of one-another dressed as superheros. He laughed and let us go.

Then, we went back to my apartment, and Erin's creativity was officially brought to reality. She arranged special poses for each of us for our superhero outfits. Her pose, since she was dressed in spandex and swimming gear, was her pretending to be diving into the toilet. LOL. And mine was with my leg up on the leg of the couch, bearing a "weapon" just like a gun, but it was actually my hair dryer. We had one girl pretend to be meditating in a locus position on this amazingly meditative looking pillow Heather had. I really am tempted to go through all of them because I'm so entertained by it, but that would probably be boring. If it's possible, I will put up the pictures from the evening--if no one has an objection to it, and if none of the pictures look overly promiscuous! (My shorts were REALLY short--and I don't want overly promiscuous pictures of me on the internet!)

All in all, last night was a blast. I LOVE my friends--they are amazing! I can't imagine how dull life would be without them in contrast to the way it is now. I just want to be like this in college forever!