I realized I forgot to tell you guys about the basketball team, which is an intrical part of my experience here so far.
Apparently all the tall people in Washington D.C. are LDS. I don't know what it is, but I'm not complaining! There are several tall men and women in my ward, and there are plenty of women who are taller than I am. One girl has got to be at least 6'2". And a lot of the girls my height wear heels so they are even taller. I love feeling so normal.
Naturally, we have a sizable basketball team. Last Friday, we had a dinner for all the girls on the basketball team. Atleast 20 girls showed up. We had it at the cheesecake factory. Why did a bunch of destitute young adults go to the cheesecake factory? Good question. So we got there at 7:30 p.m. and didn't get seated until 9 p.m. Everyone around me ordered dinner. Dinner cost atleast $20. I splurged for a piece of cheesecake, which cost $10. I ordered a piece of red velvet cheesecake. It had layers of cheesecake between layers of red velvet cake, and each layer was frosted with white chocolate frosting. The edge of the crust was coated in frosting and white chocolate chips. Slice of heaven.
As everyone else dug into their veggie burgers and chicken salads, I took a dainty bite of this 1,200 calorie slice of divinity which cost the same amount I would earn in an hour and a half at work. The cream caressed my tongue and the tastes excited my taste buds.
"This is like an art gallery in my mouth!" I exclaimed. The girls around me gave weak laughs and continued to devour their food. They hadn't had my hindsight to eat dinner beforehand. I knew we wouldn't get our food until late, and I knew I didn't want to spend 4 hours worth of wages on food I could easily make myself. The cheesecake was worth it though. I ate half of it and took the rest in a to-go box.
It was 10:30 p.m. by the time we got our bills. After 3 hours together, we had all run out of things to say, and we were all too exhausted for conversation anyway. We longed for the waitress to return with our cards so we could go home and sleep. I think it was decided that we would have dinner at someone's house next time so we could afford it and not have to wait up so late.
The next day we had a basketball game at 1:30. We're the only singles ward in our stake, so we have to play the young women teams. There were 15 of us, all over 5'8" and seven of them, all under 5'6". I was the tallest girl at the game, so my team had me jump. I never want to but I'm always the one who ends up doing it. I easily got the ball to one of my team members and we bounded down the court. Someone shot and missed, I grabbed the rebound and stuck it in the hoop. One minute into the game I had scored our first point, and I suck at shooting. We easily demolished those poor 14-year-olds. I think the score was somewhere around 35 to 19. I felt bad, until I heard that they had called us old ladies. Those brats.. We had a dinner last night, but it was an hour away in Virginia, so I decided not to go, and we had a game today, but I want to go enjoy the snow and monuments, so I opted out again. I'll play next week though.
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