The Bunny's Apartment

Yesterday Kevin and I went to Jenna & Laura's new apartment and after that we went to see Jenna in her role of the bunny in "The Magician's Nephew."

The story of Jenna & Laura getting their apt really brought back some memories of my daughter Valerie and her first apartment with her roommate Jackie. I told Jenna the story and she said, "I know just how she felt!"

Anyway, Jenna & Laura were living in an apt on campus with two other girls, and they just weren't happy, so Jenna began a campaign with her Dad to be able to get her own apt. He said to me, "Why does she want her own apt? She already has an apt!" He, like me with Valerie, was worried about her safety off campus. So I told Kevin about how I had really learned a lesson with Valerie. I told him that she had come to me with the exact same request, and at first I had said "No." The only reason I changed my mind was when Valerie & Jackie rescued a little kitten that was only one week old, and although their roommates agreed to let them keep her until she was weaned, they said that if Valerie & Jackie tried to keep it any longer than that, they would report them. Of course, in a dorm apt, one can not have pets. I knew that it would break Valerie's heart if she had to give up Stolte (the kitten) and so I agreed to look at apartments. Luckily we found a great one that allowed cats.

The lesson that I learned though was just HOW MUCH happier Valerie was in her own apt and she also studied more because she could not go back to a dorm between classes, so she just went to the library. I laughed to myself when Jenna used that exact same argument with Kevin.

So, Kevin agreed to let Jenna rent an apartment with Laura, and he too, is finding out how much happier they are. The only thing that Jenna wishes the apartment would let them have is pets, but she gets around that by telling her friends who have pets to bring them over when they visit.

And then she likes going home every week or so to get her "dog fix". She told her Dad that if she could have Polo in the apartment, she would be taking him.

Laura used to be an art major before she switched to nutrition, so she painted dinosaurs on one of the walls (with the landlord's permission) and she and Jenna painted colors other than white on some of the walls as well. I thought the dinosaur wall was so cute that I took a picture of it along with some of the other decorations that Laura & Jenna had put up.

I couldn't resist putting up a picture of Jenna in her bunny make-up along with one in her bunny costume when the cast was taking bows at the end of the play. It was a cute play that basically told the story of the beginning of Narnia.