I wish I was at home to celebrate with family and friends, but I hope you all have a nice day! I suppose none of my stories today could top the excitement of the Patriots winning yet another superbowl, but I had some spare time today so I'll give it a shot. 
On Wednesday, I went to an electric vehicle company called Better Place. It was amazing! The building was so nice! It had a lot of huge touch screens that explained all about the car, and they even had a theater right in the middle of the lobby that had the curtains casually drop around you. Not sure if you can visualize this, so you'll just have to trust me that it was amazing! I'm not entirely convinced that electric vehicles will become the next big thing (yet), but the car was very nice, and they have set up quite an infrastructure here (charging stations all around and battery switch stations that take less than 5 minutes to switch!). I even got to drive the car! It was weird to drive a completely silent car, but felt good to know I wasn't using gas! Anyways, I'll stop rambling about all this environmental stuff! Everyone is probably wondering why I'm discussing an electric car when the title of this post is about a purse. As most of you know, I don't own a purse. I never thought it was much of a problem until this weekend. When I went out with a few of my friends on Friday night I checked my coat. It was about 2 when we decided to leave to catch the 2:18 train (which only runs every hour). Unfortunately, my coat check number fell out of my pocket and the lady wouldn't give me my coat back even though I had identification in my pocket! Needless to say, we missed the 2:18 train.
Despite looking all over the place for my number I was unable to find it (shocking) so the lady informed me I would have to wait until 5 to get my coat. I was already a little sick so I was not too keen on this idea. After waiting 20 minutes for the manager I was finally able to retrieve my coat (thank goodness he was more reasonable!). I bought my friend a hot dog to thank her (which was an adventure in itself!), and we sprinted to catch the 3:18 train with a hot dog in hand. Looking back, we decided this was the best part of the night!
It was after this night that I realized how imperative a purse is! However, I think I will always leave my ID in my coat pocket just in case!
On Saturday I went with my host family to a family friend's house for dinner! I couldn't stop thinking about the Schneider's the entire dinner, and how much Rachel and Dr. Schneider would have LOVED this dinner! Dr. Schneider - you're idea about eating dessert before dinner might not have caught on in the U.S., but it appears fairly normal here! We ate birthday cake before dinner last weekend, and I actually had to do a double take when I saw waffles on the table as an appetizer yesterday! Yes, we had waffles and ice cream before dinner (Rachel- where were you!?). Not only that, but they also had jello shots before dinner?? Then we concluded the night with Mexican food! It was certainly the most interesting/amazing meal I had ever had! Unfortunately, I had no one to share my amusement with because everyone there thought it was completely normal! And Mom, I'm sorry to inform you, but your years of drilling me on how to set a table correctly are useless here. They put the fork and the knife on the right! That will probably be my instinct when I get home so it's probably best if I don't set the table anymore.
Well, let's hope to see lots of spiked balls today (I hope everyone got the Gronk reference)! And once again, GO PATS!!!!!!!!
Quote of the Day: "Mikaela, get a purse" - everyone
Hey Mik, A purse can be a good thing, but if you are not used to having one with you, it just gives you one more thing to leave behind or get taken. I'm just saying . . .
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