Despite the exhaustion, fatigue, and soreness, this weekend has been climbing its way to be the number one weekend I've had thus far during my freshman year!  It's been such an incredible weekend that I don't even know where exactly I should begin to write and tell ya'll about it!  Sigh!

Well, as many of you have been keeping up with my Blog probably knew, this past Friday/Saturday was the Relay For Life at USC.  I could barely focus on my two classes Friday morning because I was just way too excited for the event and too preoccupied with making list after list of things to do.  With so many things still needing to get done, everyone was frantically running around all day Friday.  Everyone had their own last minute preparations that they wanted to get finished.  Shawn, Beverly, Cynson, and I worked on banners for the event.  Megan ran a couple of errands for things we needed for our on-site fundraisers.  Then, after our own little duties were done, it was a mad dash for each of us around all of our dorm rooms, packing all of the food, drinks, clothes, games, cameras, etc...all of the goodies we wanted for the night!

My impression of Relay for Life at USC would have to be that it is just as great if not better as I remembered my first RFL experience to be back at Greenville.  Even with such a small team, my friends and I of the Fab Five and Co. did an amazing job at fundraising and raised probably about $1700.  That is only my estimate, however.  We will find out exactly how we did on Tuesday at the final RFL meeting for the year.

Many different student organizations and small groups of friends like with the group I was in had done so much work and put together a great little carnival.  There were snowcones, candied apple, cotton candy, pie-eating contests, bake sales, random games for prizes, and a gazillion other fun stuff!  There were so many different activities and games to help keep us all awake for the entire 12-hour duration of the RFL event reminding us all that unfortunately cancer does not sleep.

Fab Five and Co. participated in practically all of the games that the different clubs had.  We played flag football despite the fact that we probably had not only the smallest people but the most players to not know how to play the game.  We were definitely the underdogs!  Unfortunately, we did not win, but I was told that I was quite the beastly, hardcore player on the field as also a great entertainer with my awesomely intimidating faces!  We also did the trivia game, the scavenger hunt, and participated on the side to the newlywed game.  We didn't exactly go up on stage for the game, we just stayed at our tent and answered the questions.  Shawn and I lost to my friends because Shawn did not know what my shoe size is!  Geez!  Hehehe!  But my most favorite activity that we joined in, however, would have to probably be the Ms. Relay For Life Pageant.  The boys in our group were such troopers and dressed up in our girly clothes!  They looked pretty tacky, however, as the only clothes that would fit them were big, unmatched pairs of clothing that my friend Beverly and her roommate owned!  I will have to post pictures later!

There's so much more to say about RFL and I also haven't even begun to talk about the other part of what made this weekend awesome--Shawn's parents' visit and the Spring game!--but I have to say that I need to cut this blog for now.  The only reason I'm even up at this hour is because I just finished a 3-hour nap that was preceded by a 4-hour nap--only broken for a quick dinner!  My body is just physically exhausted, so I'll just have to give a Part II update of this weekend perhaps tomorrow.  Contingent, of course, with me finishing all of my homework.  If not, I will have to get y'all caught up on Monday!  (Sorry if I barely blogged last week.  The preparations for RFL along with my classes and other activities that FASA and CSC were doing throughout the week was almost too overwhelming to deal with that I never really had time to write!  I'll definitely get y'all caught up by the end of this week.)

So, this shall be it for now my dear fellow Carolina lovers!  I will talk to y'all and catch y'all later on the flipside, future Gamecocks!