MORP: my first date of hopefully more to come.

I don't know about most 16 year old sophomore girls, but the second the date of MORP was announced, I got sooooo excited. It would be the first dance I would be able to go to, and I would get to ask! (which, I guess for a lot of girls, that's a scary thing. even for me, I kinda freaked out just a little bit.) so I tried to talk some of my friends into forming a MORP group with me, and they were reluctant, but they agreed to at least help me ask and be in a group with me. so, I decided to ask one of my best friends, Kalvin. so, this is what I came up with: get a Little Caesar's Hot-N-Ready pizza, write my name under the slices, left it at his house, drove away...you know the rest.

and he said "yes."

"I would be a dum-dum if I didn't go to Morp with you!"

so, that wasn't too bad. I ask in a creative way, he answers in a creative way, Wesley sneaks into my room and steals half my dum-dums, and everyone's happy. but none of my friends had asked yet, but I figured they would let me know when they would. finally, they come up to me and say "We actually aren't going to Morp anymore."

so of course, I can't believe it and ask why. they come up with all sorts of excuses: we don't want to pay for it, we're too scared to ask because we'd rather be asked on dates than ask (k seriously, I just asked on my first date and it's scary but it's not that big of a deal!), they just didn't want to go... bullcrap reasons. so I'm obviously not very happy because my group just bailed on me, and I guess it wasn't really ever set in stone, but still. in Utah, it's just custom to go on group dates for our day date, and to eat dinner with. so, I can't plan a date by myself, so I ask all my friends in my grade, and none of them are going. so I start to ask juniors, which kind of feels awkward because even though we are friends, I'm a sophomore asking to be in a group with juniors, and it just felt a little embarrassing. finally, 2 weeks before the dance, my friend Emmaline from tennis tells me that I can join her group, even though they had no idea what they were doing. and I am a very organized person, and I always have to know what we're doing, where we're doing it, and when we are doing it. this really annoys some people. but I just decided that since I wasn't in charge and they were older than me and have been on dates before, they knew what they were doing, so I would just be good with whatever.

for our day date, we went to Nickel City and wasted all our nickels on the Jackpot game. the most we came out with was 3 tickets. we got a grand total of 129 tickets and couldn't get any of those cool prizes, so we were good with suckers. afterwards, we got some frozen yogurt at Yogurtland. if anyone is reading this, I love frozen yogurt, especially mango or coconut or strawberry. and to be "healthy", I pile as much fruit on top as I can. then we all went home to get ready, and an hour later, we went to the Riverwoods to take pictures.

 yes, I have heels on. I went from 5'0'' to 5'2''. still much shorter than everyone.

the theme for the dance was a masquerade. we didn't have these masks on for long.

 the girls. I didn't know that "cocktail attire" was black. or white. not bright orange. but oh well. makes me look even more like a sophomore.

me, Savannah, Kenzie, Sarah, Daryl, Emmaline, Katya, and Brooke

 me and Kal, Britain and Savannah, Tristan and Sarah, Samson and Daryl, Devin and Emmaline, Jordan and Katya, Luke and Brooke, Preston and Kenzie

 and please don't ask what I am doing with my hand.

then, we went to Pizza Factory for dinner. I went there for a tennis banquet back in October and they took 2 hours to get my food. they actually brought it to us right as we left. so, I am less than satisfied with their service. only took them an hour to give us our food. but that made time for lots of talking and laughing. good times.

finally, we were ready to go to the dance and showed up at around 10. some really lame couples were leaving at that time, so I thought not very many people would be there. well, I was wrong. so many of my friends were there. everyone looked so good, and looked like they were having a good time. we danced until the DJ told us to get out. I can't say how fun it was. IT WAS SO FUN. afterwards, we changed into comfortable clothes and went to Brooke's house and made waffles at midnight.

even though it drove me crazy trying to get myself into a group, it was worth it. everyone had so much fun, and I had the best date. we laughed every minute of it, had so much fun together wasting nickels and losing half our tickets, eating "healthy" frozen yogurt, waiting an hour for our food, dancing until our feet practically fell off, and eating waffles at midnight. I could have not asked for a better first date!