Spring Break

I live in a house of four (if you include me) 20+ year old guys. For the most part we have a pretty good household. We manage to make ourselves food so we don’t starve, (which is a victory in itself) we pick up after ourselves most of the time, and remind each other to go to class. One thing we are not good at, I’d even go as far as to say we are terrible at it, is planning. A few weeks before spring break one of my roommates mentioned going to Texas to visit his family. We all kind of agreed and said that it would be a good time and then didn’t talk about it at all until about a week before spring break.

We decided that we would leave what would end up being that first Saturday of break after I would get back from seeing one of my favorite bands of all time. Lets talk about that. The band that I went and saw was Shinedown. I grew up listening to their music through my dad and had fallen in love at a young age. This time would be my 7th time seeing Shinedown live and each time it gets better and better.

Back to the poor planning. I got back from the concert at about 2am Saturday, and we left the house on our way to Midland, Texas at 2:30am. It was a 10-11 hour drive so we figured we would drive overnight and get there in the middle of the day the next day. My friends graciously let me sleep because of the long day I had before. I woke up right as we passed through Oklahoma into the Texas panhandle. The terrain was pretty bare and similar to Nebraska and Kansas, but less green. A few hours went by and we finally made it to Midland and of course we had to make our first stop at Whataburger. Let me tell you if you’ve never had Whataburger it is worth a 10 hour drive to go enjoy. Just writing this made my mouth water and made me hungry. Next stop was my friends house. He had never visited this house before because his family had just moved here from New Mexico a few months before.

The part that I was most excited for when arriving to the house was seeing the dog I mentioned before in a different blog, Bailey. She was very excited to see us and we were just as excited to see her.

We did just about every Texan thing you could imagine while we were down south. We went coyote hunting in oil fields, shot an insane amount of guns on private oil field land, (we did have permission to be on tall of this property) and even rode horses. It was an amazing getaway from the not so nice weather in Nebraska at the time and I had a crazy good time.

But now back to reality to finish off the semester with Spring Football and the last few weeks of classes.