pizza/dance party

Earlier in the week the girls asked to have a pizza/dance party for the floor last night since it's Open Weekend. Open Weekend means no tests. They can check out if they want and go home for the weekend, but generally half of them stay. The girls were willing to pay for their pizza, but they can't order it themselves. Turns out there's also a rule we can't have pizza delivered. I offered to go get it for them as long as they turned the music off by 10 pm. I figured they may not last that long since they can't have boys on the floor. They decided to do pizza at 5 and then dance later because some people would be leaving. Today (Saturday) is Parent's Day for the juniors so almost all of our girls were here last night. Elle and I went and got the pizza and drinks after her nap. We're quickly learning to get around OKC, but the traffic is something I'm still adjusting to after Waco. We gave the girls some space and we ate in our apartment. We ended up ordering 8 large pizzas for 20 girls. Chris thought there would be pizza left over. Vivid memories of cheerleading sleepovers kept coming to mind and I knew they would eat it up. Sure enough they ate it all and I think some even went and got dinner in the cafe too.

We eventually got the volleyball out and got a good size group of students to play with us down at the sand volleyball courts. It was really fun and helped me get to know some of the boys since I don't get to interact with them much. It's really evident the students here are really good kids overall. Three of the girls from our floor actually offered to walk Mops and play with Elle. It was awesome and Elle really enjoyed them. Later we kept waiting for the dancing to start, but then quickly realized they had moved it down to the basement. You could here the music up in the Great Hall. Chris wasn't on duty, but he went down and checked on things a couple of times. A professor and her husband, who is also a counselor here, live on the 3rd floor and were on duty last night so every 5-10 minutes one of them would walk through. The mother hen in me worried a bit about them all being unchaperoned, but Chris said it looked pretty tame. He said most of them were dancing and when someone would come in they would step away from each other. They quit about 10 because they had to check-in and lights out was still 11. Guess the whole experience was good practice for parents of a daughter!