Workin it 2...
Well, we managed to survive the weekend. It's taken me this long to work up the energy to post something. The trip to Duluth was a lot of fun. We spent time with the students playing games, ate lots of junk food, and even got a little shopping and exploring in- it was quite relaxing, actually.
The reason we are so wiped is the traveling portion of the weekend. We drove 4 hours up there Friday and 4 hours back on Sunday. As soon as we got back, we hopped in our car and drove 2.5 hours to my sister's (Teresa) house for a little birthday party for her and my nephew, Nicolas.
Already exhausted at that point, we tried to leave around 8-8:30, and stepped outside to a blizzard. Aye carumba! I had no idea it was even supposed to snow! Realizing we had a headlight out, we headed to Target, who does NOT sell headlights. Then we hunted down a Walmart, found one there, and got outside to about a half inch of snow on our car. We decided it wouldn't be very safe to drive 2.5 hours home with all the Minnesota crazies on the road, so we turned around and went back to Teresa's.
The next morning we woke up with every intention of leaving at 8am to get to work only a couple of hours late. We flipped on the news to find that nearly all of the schools in the twin cities were closed, there were accidents blocking every interstate we needed to take, a foot and a half of fresh snow on the ground, and wind whipping it all over the place.
Finally we left at 11am, with the car bottoming out the whole way down the street. Being the responsible people we are, we couldn't miss work! The roads were horrible. We were scared for our lives, and we were only going 35 miles an hour down the interstate! After seeing cars, semi's, and a plow peppering the ditches, we stopped off at a mall to wait it out. We talked to one girl at a store that said it took her 3 hours to get to work that morning, and she only lives 20 miles away. Some stores weren't even open because the people couldn't get there. We finally got home around 6:30 that night.
So that's my scary driving story.
On a brighter note, Matthew and I went to work out again last night. We did really good- honestly. We worked so hard that we decided to reward ourselves with a new exercise outfit for each of us. We're still working on the shoe thing- so expensive! I looked at some today at Foot Locker that were on the cheaper side- at 59 frosties! I'm so cheap- maybe I'll go check Payless tonight. My other Payless runners will be ecstatic.
The reason we are so wiped is the traveling portion of the weekend. We drove 4 hours up there Friday and 4 hours back on Sunday. As soon as we got back, we hopped in our car and drove 2.5 hours to my sister's (Teresa) house for a little birthday party for her and my nephew, Nicolas.
Already exhausted at that point, we tried to leave around 8-8:30, and stepped outside to a blizzard. Aye carumba! I had no idea it was even supposed to snow! Realizing we had a headlight out, we headed to Target, who does NOT sell headlights. Then we hunted down a Walmart, found one there, and got outside to about a half inch of snow on our car. We decided it wouldn't be very safe to drive 2.5 hours home with all the Minnesota crazies on the road, so we turned around and went back to Teresa's.
The next morning we woke up with every intention of leaving at 8am to get to work only a couple of hours late. We flipped on the news to find that nearly all of the schools in the twin cities were closed, there were accidents blocking every interstate we needed to take, a foot and a half of fresh snow on the ground, and wind whipping it all over the place.
Finally we left at 11am, with the car bottoming out the whole way down the street. Being the responsible people we are, we couldn't miss work! The roads were horrible. We were scared for our lives, and we were only going 35 miles an hour down the interstate! After seeing cars, semi's, and a plow peppering the ditches, we stopped off at a mall to wait it out. We talked to one girl at a store that said it took her 3 hours to get to work that morning, and she only lives 20 miles away. Some stores weren't even open because the people couldn't get there. We finally got home around 6:30 that night.
So that's my scary driving story.
On a brighter note, Matthew and I went to work out again last night. We did really good- honestly. We worked so hard that we decided to reward ourselves with a new exercise outfit for each of us. We're still working on the shoe thing- so expensive! I looked at some today at Foot Locker that were on the cheaper side- at 59 frosties! I'm so cheap- maybe I'll go check Payless tonight. My other Payless runners will be ecstatic.
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