It rained today. I love when it rains. Maybe because it doesn't happen very often here in Utah but when it does...look out- cause it's awesome. When it started to rain tonight I took a walk outside. Yep, I walked barefoot in the rain. I let my hair get wet and frizzy and I enjoyed every minute of it. While I was out pretending to be a crazy person I remembered another day I walked in the rain...
I was 22 years old and in my 3rd year at BYU. I had just finished a dance class in the Wilkinson center which is on the east side of campus and had about 8 minutes (after I changed out of my practice skirt and heels) to get to my next class on the west side of campus in the Richards building ( for those who don't know, the RB is down hill, down a VERY big hill with lots of stairs) Walking quickly it takes the full 8 minutes. As I approached the glass doors to exit the wilk I was horrified. Sheets of rain were being dumped from the clouds. I had a slight moment of panic when I realized I couldn't wait it out. So I hiked up my big girl panties and pushed the doors open and started walking. Unfortunately, I was in flip flops. Have you ever tried to walk in water wearing flip flops? It's suicide. Not having time to walk carefully I took the dumb things off and kept right on walking. I finally made it to the RB, walked through the class room door and was met with stunned faces. My teacher looked horrified. I was literally dripping. My shirt was soaked to my skin and my hair was drenched. I looked like I had just climbed in the shower fully clothed and then decided to come to class that way.
Please remember that I have naturally wavy hair so as it dried I looked worse and worse. Plus I had a couple more hours of sweaty dance classes so yeah... I looked awesome! By the time I got home there was really no point in fixing myself up...I mean, half of BYU campus had already seen me and I was just going to bed soon anyway. Oh except I didn't go to bed right away.... I rarely slept during this year of my life ( my roommates were too much fun to sleep).
My roommates and I were throwing a dessert party on Sunday (this was Friday) and we decided we needed to go shopping for baking ingredients. None of us really dated at BYU, probably because we had too much fun together. So to Macey's grocery store on a Friday night we went. We finished shopping and loaded up my trunk and began our drive back to our apartment south of campus. I stopped at a light and a car pulled up next to us. A car full of boys who were singing along to their music. Awesome! As the light changed my roommate in the back seat waved goodbye to the car full of men. We drove straight. They turned right. The next thing I knew they had circled the block and pulled up on my driver's side. The guy in the passenger seat asked where we were going and then asked if they could come. I told him sure- the kid looked about 18 and I was 100% positive they were not really going to come...and if they did they wouldn't stay long. As we pulled into the parking lot my roommate got out to tell them where to park and informed me that I had been wrong. They were most definitely NOT 18. whoops. We ran upstairs, threw all our junk down the hall and closed the door. A few seconds later I opened the door to a very tall good looking brunette who had been talking on his phone but was now starring at me. At that point I remembered that I had not fixed myself from my mid-day jaunt through the rain and probably looked worse than a drowned rat. Great.
Well, these guys stayed for hours, called several of their friends and before we knew it we went from the single girls with no dates to the girls with 12 hotties in their apartment. By the end of the night that good looking brunette had my number and he and his friends were coming back on Sunday for dessert night. Which then turned into a 3 month relationship for me, super creative fun new friends, and a future marriage for one of those fantastic roommates of mine. And that is the story I remembered in the rain tonight...that sometimes great experiences come from seemingly bad luck, that sometimes there are people who find you beautiful even when you don't feel it, and that you never know what adventures lay just around the corner....
