Party Animal

In the 5 weeks since school got out, I do believe that Gib has single-handedly surpassed both Indie and Taryn's cumulative social activity/party/hang-out gatherings of ALL FOUR YEARS of their high school careers...not the summer's mind you, but ALL FOUR YEARS!!!!

Gib often packs in 4 parties in a 3 day span over a weekend. Gib will even bail out on one pool party when he is texted by another friend to come join them at theirs. His explanation? He spent the day before with the one group and they had enough time with him already, and it was time to go to the other party. The "real" reason? A girl. Wouldn't you know it! We figured that out pretty quick. :)

One of my favorite parts about driving Gib all over town to these activities is when he calls to say they have left one location and are now at a community pool in another. When it is time to get him all I am told is what pool he is at. Like I will immediately know exactly how to get there. He has no idea where he is really, what street it is on, or how to get INTO the neighborhood by car in the first place. Thinking he has solved the direction problem, he has written down directions that are the absolute vaguest thing I have ever encountered. We get to the intersection and he says basically "we have arrived". And I'm all like, "Gib, there is not an entrance to a neighborhood in the middle of an intersection!!!" Then we finally find it, thanks to me not his dumb directions, and I turn into the neighborhood thinking Gib now knows where to go since his lovely directions end at this point and he goes, "drive to the pool". I look at him blankly and ask him, "and how do I know where the pool is?!" We laughed and drove around trying to guess where we would put a pool. Luckily a golf cart dude was putt-putting around or we would have never found it. Of course Gib didn't have a phone number of the friend who could have helped get us there. Noooo, that would have been too easy.

So, what I've learned is to get a street name, map it on my way out, and then put it into my iphone and save it for future reference. Thank goodness I have an app for that!!

And by the end of summer, my knowledge of the location of several community pools will be increased substantially!!