Oh my goodness! Too much to update!
Okay. So. On Friday, I hung out with Emili after school. We retrieved her bike from the shop (it turned out so well!) and enjoyed some pizza from Broklyn. Then, I left her (SO SAD. I won’t see her again for ages.) and headed over to the Harkey’s. Emma’s dad got there shortly after and we were off to Tempe.
We stayed at Noah’s house that he shares with three other guys, and Emma’s dad stayed at his moms. After we unloaded the harmonium, drum set, et cetera from the car and Mr. Harkey left, Emma and Noah practiced. I was blown away all weekend by their talent. It…it is surreal to hang out with them and then hear them perform. They are amazing. Some friends of Noah’s were in from Tucson also, so in all there were nine people in his house including Emma and I. NINE! I got my own room (dubbed for now [until their new roomate moves in]) the girl room, because Emma has slept there before and they decorated it with drawings they made of ‘girl things’ like flowers and hearts and such. 
I slept really well and woke up around nine. The boys made a huge breakfast of oatmeal, mufcake (muffin mix in the shape of a cake), eggs, fruit, juice, and quite a few other things besides. Then some of them left to get tobacco and cigars, Emma and I cleaned up from breakfast and also helped Noah set up the equipment in the backyard. Setting everything up was a little difficult, but the yard looked great by the end of it. We had everything up and the tobacco runners came home around three or four so we had a talent contest. 
I cut Emma in half, Noah did an impersonation of someone, stories were told, rapping was done, Smeagol impersonations also (frighteningly good ones), interpretive dance, and something involving testicles that Emma and I had to go inside for. People started showing up around five, and the show started sometime after that (I lost all understanding of time while I was there). The first band was decent, though not amazing; the second band, Boreas, was fantastic and the guys in it are very nice. Then Nöma came on and was SUPURB, of course. It was fun because I got to sit in on all their rehearsals throughout the day and night so I knew all of the songs by the time they went on. Noah’s voice is fantastic, Emma’s violin is amazing and her voice is perfect. There aren’t enough positive adjectives for me to describe how amazing they are. Any way, after their set (including happy birthday, because it was a birthday celebration after all) people hung around a while longer but left around nine. We were too lazy to bring anything but the really important stuff in, so we left it all outside and then split up. The over 21-ers went clubbing, and Noah (although he’s 22) took me, Emma and his two under 21 friends to ride the Metro. Alors, the Metro is so clean and shiny (for now), and it was an awful lot like being on the Death Star or the Starship Enterprise on account of its fancyness. We rode it into downtown Phoenix (? It could have been downtown Tempe, I don’t know much about Phoenix or its surrounding areas), walked around there a bit and then walked around ASU, where Noah goes to school. The weather was beautiful, and ASU is a surprisingly well put together and lovely campus, complete with a huge library and a secret garden. We walked back to the car and drove back home after the ASU tour, tired. At home, we stayed up a bit longer, talking about the night and how fun it was and how amazing Emma and Noah are, and then went to bed. I woke up around nine again, veeerry sleepy. The boys made breakfast again, and Emma and I started packing and getting ready to go visit Emma and Noah’s grandma and her dad. So we said bye to all the boys and went to Scotsdale. Their grandma is the cutest little Japanese woman in the whole world! She was so so cute and her house had so many amazing things from Japan and yardsales and it was cuuute. Did I mention cute? Then we visited Emma’s aunt (who lives down the street from her grandma) and shot airsoft guns with their cousins (it was intense.). After a bit longer we went back to Noah’s house, loaded up all of the equipment into Mr. Harkey’s car, said bye to Noah and wished him a happy birthday and bid Tempe adieu.
Now I’m home, and even though it’s only nine I am POOPED. I was up so late both nights I was there and we did so much and I’m just needing to sleep. I have homework, but eff it. I’m going to bed.
It was such a fantastic weekend and I’m sure I left some stuff out and didn’t adequately describe how great it was, but if I think of something I’ll include it here.
Noooo, schoooool. Ooh, and I get my own personal Nöma shirt this week.
