twilight zone

we had quite the weekend.
     it was the last weekend here in bentonville and it has been bittersweet.  we are super excited to go home but we have made some really great friends here. 
        seeing that it was the last weekend, everyone wanted to go out to dickson street to celebrate.  dickson street is the street in fayettville that has all of the clubs and bars and tj and i thought "let's go and dance and hang out with everyone, but we'll bring our own car because we are wieners when it comes to nights like these and we will probably be tired by 11:00".  so we did.

 here we are with todd and graham.  we love todd and graham. 
         this is the beginning of the night when we are optimistic, footloose and fancy free.
        
         and yes i dyed my hair dark again.  this is a really bad photo and you actually can't tell but my hair is red.  i've always wanted to be a fiery red head.  (my sisters are going to have a melt down because you're not beautiful unless you're blond right?  love you guys!)

here is a list of the rest of the night.
1.  bored.  the bar had no music and so tj and i were sitting around picking our nose while everyone started getting tipsy
2.  new bar.  this is a piano bar.  watch a bar fight go down (my first one) and see a bouncer headlock a guy, take him outside and pretty much curb the guy and he throws his head into the curb.  we get there too late and the piano players are finished.  we are bugged and go get our cover charge back.
3.  new club.  awesome music.  great dancing.  todd is throwin back shots "for alex and tj".  right todd, right.
4.  you know you're wasted when you start trying to dance with your mormon co worker's mormon wife.  it was hilarious.  more than anything it was just funny to people watch and to be happy that we are so not in that scene.  yeah sure, it was fun to dance and watch everyone but i have never been more happy that i don't drink.
5.  tj and i leave.  we go to village inn at 2:30 (i was pretty impressed with our old, married selves)  and see this guy:      

ronnie brewer.
tj was soooo excited but too scared to say anything to him.  so we got in our car like two creepers, watched him pick up a couple of pies, get back in his escalade with his entourage and leave.  tj was really bummed he didn't say anything, so as we were riding home i pretended to be ronnie and have a conversation with him.  i think it worked out great!

so we are in bed by 3:00
we wake up by 10:00 and get ready to go to church where everything is familiar, peaceful and normal.
we get there around 11:15 and grab a seat.  we look around.  no one looks familiar.  the bishopric is totally different. 
we start going over with one another that we are sure that church had always started at 11:00, right?  we were pretty sure that we were in the correct building.  as we feel everyone's eyes burning a hole in the back of our heads ready to welcome us to the ward we ditch out.  we walk around the building and i look inside the relief society room to see that i don't recognize anyone in there either.

tj and i get back in the car and just look at each other and laugh.  what had just happened?
tj gets on our ward website and it looks like the time has changed to one.  of course it had.  why not.  why should we assume that arkansas does ANYTHING normal.  right when we think we are old pros at this whole arkansas thing.  i guess everyone just assumed that we knew this info and we probably didn't hear the announcements. 
so that is our last weekend here.  kinda crazy and out of our norm.  we start the long drive home friday and we are really excited.  and of course, tj did a great job on his final presentation, but are you surprised?