if I could find you now things would get better /we could leave this town and run forever

Dad is here! Hooray!

Last night was crazy busy. I left work at 4:30 and met Jason to run a few errands, then we met everyone at the Seabrook Beach Club to watch sailboat races and meet Cari’s friend Kelly. Kelly is from Canada, and was at ISU in France for the past nine months (as was Cari), and is working at UTMB in Galveston for the intern portion of the master’s degree program. She seems pretty cool, and we are definitely enjoying the opportunity to tell Cari how Kelly is going to take over her life, her friends, and her dog while Cari is “stuck” in Germany for the next couple months.

The sailboat races were really fun to watch. Becca’s been sailing in them for at least a year now, and Gavin has started crewing, but neither of them were racing last night. I’m interested in crewing, but at the moment I have pretty low confidence in my sailing ability. Once I get my new car this weekend and thus can tow the sailboat Becca and I bought last summer, I’ll get a lot more practice and maybe can start racing. It looked like a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun just to watch as well. It made me want a Sunfish (small, one-person sailboat).

After the races, Paul and Jason and I hung out for a while, and at 10:00 my dad arrived! Yay! He made pretty good time from Charlotte…17 hours total. I think he was pretty tired of being in the car by the time he got here. He likes my new apartment (he’d only seen the old one, and without furniture), and seemed as happy with a bread and cheese sandwich as anything else. My dad is weird.

Today we’re going to start serious car shopping!