Nicole was still a bit drunk when we woke up Tuesday morning and was looking a little ragged. By dinner, she was doing just fine though! For dinner that night, we went to an Italian place with Nicole’s friends from home and some girls from work. I always enjoy getting to hang out with the girls from work outside of the office. We have a lot of fun when we’re at work, but it’s still nice to get to know them outside of the ASA world. Then we headed back to our place to wait until it was time to go and hit the bars for real! While we waited for 10 o’clock to roll around, Nicole and I sat and talked with Naydia and Emily. Naydia was an LC and traveled with Amber a couple of years back and Emily was an LC last year and was just in town to do some training with us. It was great getting to sit around and talk with them because we got to ask them about different chapters that they’d been to that we were going to, how training has changed over the years with the different people that have been in charge of it and just different things about ASA in a totally casual way. It was wonderful! We left the apartment around 10 and met up with the guys from AKL that we’d met the night before at dinner at Krystal’s house (Corey, Jeff and Eric). We had a lot of fun! At the first bar that we were at, I played pool for a while with the guys, which was fun even though I really suck at pool. Corey had brought a friend with him who we hadn’t met yet (Byron). He was pretty cute. He and I flirted for a while, then he kind he moved on to flirting with Nicole. I’m pretty used to this since I used to hang out with Emily. We stayed at the first bar for quite a while before moving on to a couple of others. At the end of the night Byron started flirting with me again, and it just kind of made me laugh on the inside. Nicole’s friends and Byron wanted to keep drinking after we left the bar, so we stopped at the store and bought some stuff and headed back to our apartment. Most people had gone home at this point, so it was just me and Nicole, her 3 friends and Byron. It was quite the night!
Wednesday we had training at work with Emily, and just that one day of training with her so more helpful than a weeks worth that we’d gotten before. I really enjoyed the training with her; not only was it great to get insight about things from someone who got done traveling just months ago, but she’s also a lot of fun! She’s moving to Ireland in September to do grad school and I’m terribly inspired by her! She doesn’t know anyone at all in Ireland and has never been there before. She got a scholarship to go to school over there, so she thought, why not? She’s going to stay in youth hostiles when she gets over there while she tries to find an apartment. I think that would be fun to do. Thursday was just a normal day at the office. Nicole and I were a little bit frantic trying to figure out how we were going to get everything done that we needed to before heading out on the road. We were panicking a bit we had a million things to do and Friday was our last day in the office.
Thursday night Nicole and I went to the Indiana state fair with Christy, Naydia and Andy (Amber’s fiancée). Going to the state fair is a lot different when you’re an adult than it is when you’re a kid. Well, I guess it is for some people. All we did was walk around for a few hours eating fair food (and we ate tons of it!). I would have loved to have ridden some of the rides, but no one else wanted to and I didn’t want to pay for coupons to ride on rides by myself. We all ate so much food, it was ridiculous. Friday at the office Nicole and I had tons to do to prepare for our upcoming visits.
Friday is normally a half day but there was no way that we could get everything done that we needed to by noon, so Christy offered to let us stay at the office and come back and get us around 5 and that worked out pretty well. Friday night we were planning on going to an Indians game with Christy, Naydia and Aly, but that didn’t work out so well. There was apparently some big gaming convention or something going on down there near the stadium and so parking was just nonexistent. After driving around for a while, we just decided to forget it and go out to dinner instead. We had a good time and Nicole and I got a little sad because we were just getting all settled and feeling at home in Indy and now it was time to say goodbye to everyone again.
Saturday Nicole and I had to run a few errands around town, and since we’re carless now (thanks to me) Aly volunteered to come pick us up and tote us around town. Aly is a hoot! Absolutely hilarious, so we had a great time with her. Later that night we went to go see the Sex and the City movie even thought we’d all already seen it before. We saw it in a theatre kind of like the Alamo Draft House, but not as good. The movie made me super sad about how I haven’t seen my friends in 7 weeks and I’m not going to get to see them for like another 8. I know the next 8 weeks of my life are going to be interesting though (and hopefully exciting), so while I do miss my friends, I’m still looking forward to what comes next for me.
Now that I'm all caught up on my life in Indy, here are some pictures of where I spent my last 6 weeks.
This picture (above) is the view of Nicole and I's office from the door way.
This picture (above) is the kitchen at HQ. 
This picture is the boardroom where we had a lot of our training sessions. 
This is my desk. Yes, it was a mess, but I used everything on there every single day and I cleaned it all up when I left each day.
This is my lovely Nicole.
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