Formally Yours

In honor of both Pi Phi and Kappa being founded at Monmouth College back in the 1800s, we join forces with the angels to throw our biggest formal of the year and call it none other than Monmouth.

Here's Julie and I in front of the charming construction on Rio Grande.

A handful of the Kappa girls met beforehand to take pictures before rounding up our dates.

I re-wore one of my dresses from high school, which pleased my budget and my mom, who knows I can rarely resist the urge to go dress shopping.

{Nicole, Katie, Caroline, me, Claudia, Maggie, Meghan & Courtney}

You'll note that there was a general neutral color scheme pattern among the girls' dress choices.

Love ya, Katie!

Nicole and I nearing the end of the "Milly Photoshoot"

{graham, nelson, meghan, me, rye}

Fifty of us, including Pi Phis and Kappas, rented a bus for the evening to take us to and from dinner and the event.

My suitemates, Blakely and Claire, with their dates Spence and Richard

{me & rye, blakely & richard, courtney & matt, claire & buc, nicole & joe, graham & elise}

All the girls with their dates, all of whom looked sharp in their tuxedos.

We went to Eddie V's downtown for dinner and treated ourselves to excellent meals of steaks, truffled mac'n'cheese and all sorts of other good eats.

I'm almost certain that most people would agreed that Monmouth lived up to the hype that surrounded it. It brought me back to my high school days where dress decisions, date asking frenzies and dinner/bus planning was almost a monthly occurrence. Though I can't say I miss that regularity, it was a nice change of pace to revert back to something a bit more familiar than bar tabs and fraternity parties. However, this weekend will be a similar affair. One of Merl's deb balls, Helping Hand, is this weekend and most of my college and high school friends will be there. All of this leading up to the highly anticipated Spring Break!

Happy Leap Day!