We're Back

Whew! What a trip. The wedding was beautiful, the weather was fanatastic and we got to see Dad & Frank, Mom & Ed as well as Max & George and their parents. I used to nanny for M&G when I lived in Grand Island (not their real names...nicknames from back then).

J noticed lots of similarities between driving through Nebraska and driving through Texas. Lots of long, straight, flat roads. He also noticed something very different - the amount of red at Memorial Stadium on game day (the sold-out Red White game was going on when we drove past). He said that he never saw that much burnt orange at UT when he was going to school there.

We also took a quick tour of Carol Joy Holling while we were going back to Lincoln from Omaha. The place has changed so much, until we passed Ranch it felt like somewhere I'd never been before. Then as we crossed the dam and headed up over to Trailhead (10 years later I still want to call it Main Site) and Tipi things started to feel much more like I remembered. It was nice to be able to show J one of the most influential places from my childhood through college years.

We spent Saturday night at mom & Ed's - it was nice to visit with them. I haven't been home except for Christmas in 3 years now - it was really nice to be there when there weren't fifteen million things to do.

Sunday, while playing Wii tennis with Max & George, we learned a very important lesson - if you're playing a game where everyone has to be standing up at the same time, it would be well to put the left handed kiddo on the left side of everyone else as to avoid someone getting a Wii controler to the eye socket. Poor George was so upset that Max had hit him - but it was an accident, and soon the tears were dried and all was well.

So while we did everything we set out to do, there were lots of folks I wanted to see, but just couldn't make it happen and J has a whole team of field reps working out there that he'd like to meet eventually too. So perhaps sometime we'll take a 4 day weekend and do some more visiting.

For now, it's back to work and time to get back to the gym or there will be no mountain climbing for me this summer.

Mid-April? How'd that happen?

Seriously. Time has been flying by lately. I'm amazed by how quickly time has been passing. Since the last post, mom's whole side of the family was out for Easter. We all went up to Estes Park for the weekend.


The ski/snowboard season is wrapping up with just a few ski areas and resorts still open this week. The grass has been green in town for quite a while now - though tonight, it's being covered by a wet, heavy layer of snow. The drive to work tomorrow will be a nice sloppy mess I'm sure.

I haven't been doing so well with the gym thing lately. I really need to with the backpacking trips and other things we have planned for the summer. And now, after a 4 year hiatus, Tash and I are doing the Bolder Boulder again next month. And in super cool move, the office is covering the registration fee...woohoo.


Before that though, J and I are packing up the car on Friday and heading to Nebraksa for a whirlwind weekend of fun in HuskerLand. 1200 miles in 48 hours - sure not to leave an impression of much other than the interstate, sadly. I'm looking forward to the weekend, but the driving, not so much. Denver-Grand Island, Grand Island-Omaha, Omaha-Lincoln, Lincoln-Wilber, Wilber-Grand Island, and Grand Island-Denver. We'll manage to see Dad & Frank, Mom & Ed, the Boys & their folks, and a good friend's wedding (which is what prompted the trip in the first place).


And auto related...with the end of the ski season, the car got a new windshield today - just before the snow started. Driving back on Sunday would have been "super no bueno" with the big crack competing with the glaring sun.