The one where they thought I was really, REALLY obsessed with horses.

Now as much as I loved my time in California and I would love to go back and visit more, once I landed back in the South I knew I was where I belonged. Couldn’t ask for a better place of the country to be for my birthday. I mean after all I was born in the Birminham hospital right across the street from Samford’s campus. (How many times did you tell me that Mike?)

Here‘s the thing. I had no plans of telling Alpha Gamma that it was my day of birth.

 A) That’s awkward when I don’t know them and B) it’s not really a big deal. 

Mike Wolf had other plans though I found out.

I visited Alpha Gamma for a recruitment workshop so during the day I usually had meetings with chapter officers and caught up on reports. They were so welcoming from the beginning. Look at that welcome basket!

My birthday morning I woke up to go to the gym (YES! No running outside in the heat!) and this is what I saw when I opened my door:

I had absolutely no idea they knew it was my birthday! Some of the girls had written me birthday cards and they even made me blueberry muffins. I felt so loved by these sisters I had known less than 24 hours. 

After a good indoor workout I came back to get ready for a meeting with the membership director followed by lunch with Mary Young. We worked together at Nu the week before so I was so excited to see her again! She lives in Tuscaloosa but her family owns a sports store in Birmingham so she offered to take me out to lunch for my birthday!

After lunch she insisted we go shopping. No really, she made me J I picked up a scarf at Banana with the following justifications-

1)      It’s pink—aka great for recruitment

2)      It’s lightweight so it won’t add really any weight to my luggage.

3)      It was 30% off the clearance price- SOLD.

After lunch with Mrs. Mary

Here’s how else they made my birthday pretty much the best-

A)     I got a campus tour—love those of course

B)      Photo for my project—check!

C) Took me to a local restaurant with crushed ice. #winning

After dinner at Momma G's: I feel like I have my own
Pi Chi group with all of them in matching shirts.

I loved my Bham tour guides for the day.

It's definitely more difficult to prepare for recruitment while classes are going on. But, the women of Alpha Gamma showed me once again that it's possible! Workshop at night could only last a certain amount time per Panhellenic rules so the MD made sure to use those few hours to the best of her ability. Each day they ended with a group doing a fun dance number or skit. Hey, recruitment is supposed to be a lot of fun-remember??

Beautiful and delicious cake! So thankful there is not a horse talking on an Iphone on this cake.
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Samford was the first to school I visited where there actually was time to tour the city. 3 sweet sisters took me to the Vulcan. Birmingham is known for Iron and we toured the little museum to learn more about the city. The man working at the museum made us start the exhibit over because he said we were talking too much...oops.

Red Towel Time!

This is Mr. Beeson

Mr. Beeson and his family have given millions of dollars to Samford over the years. Many of the buildings on campus are named after members of his family.Those are actually his real shoes that were bronzed and it's supposed to be a life size replica of Mr. Beeson.