Ireland

Ok, I guess I've put this off long enough. As most of you know, our freshman year in highschool we went to Ireland with the band. Well, I was fortunate enough to be with Veronica the WHOLE time. We roomed together while there, were on all of the same planes, same bus, everything. When we got to Charlotte to get on the very first plane (Veronica had never flown before) our plane took off a lot later than the other groups planes did (there were 3 groups) Well, this was when Veronica and Kyle were dating (I think, they were off and on more than a light switch haha) so she wanted to go and hang out with him before his plane left and we had plenty of time so we did. As his plane was boarding we got up to leave and Veronica walked off leaving her passport and airline ticket sitting on the bench beside her. I quietly grabbed it and kept it with mine but never said anything to her about it. We got back to our gate and waited for our plane for a while talking and laughing with everyone that was in our group. As they called for us to board the plane Veronica got up and got in line and she started frantically searching for her passport and ticket. I started laughing and pulled it out and handed it to her and said "looking for this?" and she thanked me and we laughed about how she almost didn't even make it out of the country all the way to Ireland.

Ok, the 2nd Ireland story I have from Ireland is after we had gotten to London Hethrow airport (which happens to be the largest airport in the world I think) and the chaperones just let us go do whatever we wanted to in the airport during our layover. I can't remember exactly what all we did, I'm sure we ate, shopped, did whatever we could find. Well it was getting close to time to board and Veronica and I started looking for our gate. Now, at this airport, you have to take trains to different sections of the airport. My dad always laughs about how they were getting worried because Veronica and I weren't there yet. The people that were at the gate on time had been boarding for about 5 min and when Veronica and I finally showed up there were only about 10 people in front of us left to board. So again, we almost didn't even make it to Ireland.

Everything was always an adventure with Veronica, as the rest of these stories on here portray. I'm pretty sure almost every memory I have of Veronica we were either in trouble, should have been in trouble, or were about to be in trouble. Never for anything bad, just goofing off like two teenagers would do.

I also remember a time, I think it was the 7th grade band trip, Veronica and I roomed together. Somewhere one of us had figured out that if you put water on a light bulb it would explode. Well, Veronica being Veronica wanted to try it. So we busted the light bulb and ended up getting in trouble. We ended up having to sit on a bench the entire time we were at a zoo in whatever city we were in. We always joked about how the only thing we got to see was a peacock because it happened to walk by where we were sitting. We actually talked about this the last time I got to talk to her.

I'm sure I'll think of more later and I'll try not to wait so long to post them.

-Katie Carrier