Cockystock with the Cool Kids

Hi again, friends!

I've had so much fun recently that I've almost forgotten to blog about it! (Well, Katie's forgotten to blog about it, but don't worry, because I reminded her!) And the last few weeks of the semester have been especially busy!

Anything with my bestie is an adventure!

Last Wednesday, I went to Cockystock with Katie. Cockystock is this outside thing on the TMB lawn with music and food and crafts. Katie says it's a play off "Woodstock," but I don't know what Woodstock is, either. Just that it happened a pretty long time ago. It sounds like it was fun, though.

Meet my new friends: The Babies!

Most importantly, I made some new friends at Cockystock! They have a lot of names that I'll never remember, but Katie says I can just call them The Babies. The Babies are freshmen in college, and Katie kind of adopted/kidnapped them. Some of them even call her "Mom," and that's cute and weird at the same time. They really look up to Katie for help with college, and Katie likes helping them. So, I guess it makes sense that they call each other "Babies" and "Mom." They really are like a family.

So, all that to say that The Babies wanted to have a Family Volleyball Game before Cockystock, and they invited me and
Katie to play with them!
I got to be part of their big, happy, crazy family
for a little while, and, boy, was it fun!

I will say this, though: Katie and The Babies aren't so great at sports...but it's okay, because they definitely had fun. They did more running after the ball than hitting it, but they probably got a good workout just from laughing so much! The Boy Babies are pretty good at sportsing, though. Katie says they played sports in high school, though, so that's almost like cheating. I didn't play. Mostly because I have disproportionally short arms. And you sometimes need your arms to play volleyball.

After a few games of volleyball (Katie's team won...I think. It's hard to tell.), we went over to Cockystock, and I got free pizza! Free pizza is by far the best kind of pizza. Me and Katie and The Babies sat together and ate dinner and listened to the band that was playing (One of the guitar players was really, really enthusiastic! He was dancing around the stage and shaking his hair all around! He might have more energy than Katie!), and then we decided to go inside and look around. There were so many people waiting in lines to make dream catchers and paint canvases or have their names drawn into pictures or get silly pictures of themselves drawn! There was a lot packed into the teeny tiny TMB lobby!!

But pretty soon it was time to go. Katie was tired from sportsing, and The Babies had homework to do. So Katie took a few more pictures and got me another piece of pizza, and then we headed back home.

It wasn't a grand, all-day adventure, but sometimes adventures are in the little things: hanging out with your family and being collectively bad at something together and eating pizza and relaxing and putting off your obligations and responsibilities for one evening. Because a long, long time from now, you won't remember the homework assignments you had, but you will remember the nights when you had fun doing nothing with people who mean everything to you.

~Trash Bear (and Katie)~

Family Volleyball Champs!