Oranges, Playgrounds, and Brick Walls.

Some nights you just need an adventure. I was in a pretty bad mood when two of my friends, Kyle and Charlie, told me that we were going on an adventure. I almost refused, but I knew that they were working pretty hard to try and cheer me up. So off we went.

We walked off of campus, and down the road to the orange tree that my friends sometimes take oranges from. The tree is technically in someone’s yard, but it hangs over a brick wall and over the sidewalk. We had brought two wire hangers that were straightened out to hook the branches and pull them down. After about five minutes of trying to get that to work, Kyle gave up, handed me his phone, and jumped up onto the wall. He began to throw oranges down to Charlie, and we ended up with five oranges.

Charlie and Kyle looking serious with our oranges.

We began to walk back toward campus and decided to go to the park. We also decided to cut through the cemetery. That was our first mistake. After we crossed the cemetery, we discovered that a fence stood in our way of the park. However, not letting anything stand in our way, we made up our minds that we would climb over it. It wasn’t that tall. Well, I was wearing a pair of chucks (Chuck Taylors/converse for those of you who aren’t down with the lingo), and those aren’t exactly climbing shoes. I took them off and threw my purse over the fence. I then climbed my way over the fence, my feet hurting from the metal and landing in the wet grass.

Once all three of us were over, we crossed the parking lot toward the playground. The whole park is a really nice place. There’s a waterpark, and behind that there are two playgrounds and probably eight or more tennis courts. There are two, eighteen-hole frisbee golf courses, and a nice grassy area with a pond and lots of geese.

We headed to the bigger playground. It has a fair number of swings, and then all kinds of equipment that swings and allows for all kinds of potential danger. It’s awesome.

The boys enjoying the playground.

After some time at the playground, we decided to take a different route to head back to campus. We cut across the farther frisbee golf course and went down a big hill. I wasn’t entirely sure where we were. We then went up a different hill, meeting a brick wall. Kyle pulled himself to the top of the wall to see what was on the other side. Charlie jumped right over. It was then that Kyle came back down and informed me that it was a police station. A few moments later, I got a phone call from Charlie. He told me there were police cars everywhere, and I told him it was a police station. We got off of the phone, and a minute later he jumped back over to our side of the wall. I couldn’t stop laughing.

We eventually made our way back to campus. We had eaten one of our oranges back at the park, and it was absolutely delicious. The other four oranges were distributed among the three of us. What a night it was… Quite the adventure.