It’s been almost a month since the last post, but we’ve had some exciting times — especially this past weekend.
According to the calendar, spring should be here, but we have evidence to the contrary. Last Friday (March 21), we got over a foot of snow! We had to park the Prius on the road for about an hour while we shoveled the driveway. It was the weirdest Good Friday that I can remember.
On Saturday, the temperature hit fifty degrees, but there was still so much snow! The plow came by in the morning and forced us to do a lot more shoveling. The strange thing was that I didn’t even need a jacket while I was doing it. After we knew we could get our car out, I went for a six-mile run on the well-plowed streets in our neighborhood. No tights required.
Some luck finally came our way when we were able to catch some earlier flights from Milwaukee to O’Hare to Portland, Oregon. Our original flight didn’t arrive until after 10 p.m., but we made it shortly after 8. This allowed us to get some rest before celebrating Easter with Jenelle’s family.
Everything about our trip was wonderful. We enjoyed the Easter Sunday church service, and dinner at Pam and Dave’s house was tremendous. We had lots of fun hanging out with our nephew, Lucas, who is always full of energy. He beat me in a game of checkers, and I helped him put together some Lego sets. Jenelle and Dave joined us for a game of Clue. Dave won — it was Professor Plum with the knife in the kitchen.
On Monday, we “bummed around” town for a while. We went shopping all over the place, even though we didn’t really need anything. We met up with Jeff, Josie, and Lucas for dinner at a restaurant called Claim Jumpers, which is actually quite fancy and very good.
We left early Tuesday morning (way too soon for us, but that’s the way it goes). After a slight delay at O’Hare, we returned to Wisconsin and relaxed for the rest of the evening.
The next big thing on the calendar is my 50K race on April 5. Unless you count our 5th wedding anniversary, which is this Saturday. 🙂
