Peanut Butter and Jelly

The college world has been flourishing in the beginning  weeks of the new semester.  The days are still hot and the students are still excited that professors have not jumped into full fledge assignment giving mode. When the leaves are on the trees and the grass is still green, what better way to spend an afternoon than chalking sidewalks, playing with whiffle bats and tossing a football?  That’s right, college students enjoy chalk, too.   This weekend entailed these activities in the best kind of way.  Chalking began around noon on Saturday after a purchase was made at Target.  The 10 year-old neighbors decided to join, and before my friends and I knew it, we were chalking down memory lane.   While chalking with the kids I was reminded of the good old days of recess, the hot asphalt, melting popsicles and the busy, bustling, buzzing sound of a playground. Ahhh the innocence.  After the frivolous fun the kids-kids went home and the college-kids engaged in dizzy bat; an even more frivolous event. Dizzy bat entails a whiffle bat, beer cans, and dizziness.  The goal of the game is similar to a game of whiffle bat.  The rules are as follows; drink a can of beer, place the end of the bat on the ground, your forehead on the opposite end, spin four times, then attempt to hit the can without falling over.  A game for students enrolled in higher education institutions, clearly. Dizzy bat did not last long due to, well, dizziness, and the inability for several small college girls to drink beer fast enough to make it worth while. As the sun dipped down a friendly game of flag football ensued with peers nearby in the neighborhood.  Needless to say, it was an exciting beginning to the weekend.  And of course, Sunday ended with the the mandatory meal, this time at Duck Nook, an old-school type of restaurant.  The inside of Duck Nook appears to be the result of Duck paraphernalia throw up; duck pictures, duck posters, duck shakers, duck tapers and on and on and on.  Despite the overwhelming duck decor, college students flock to this restaurant for their famous omelets and sour dough toast. Needless to say, the components of another successful Sunday.