We've been busy since our last post---mostly crossing things off our Things To Do Before The Baby Arrives list.
Good news....We finally made it to Tahoe for some skiing. It was weird to go from 75 degree weather to mid 20's and snow in just over 2 hours. Seeing snow again was awesome---Turtle loved it. She and Jo played in the snow on the snowshoe paths and walked around the village at Squaw Valley. Meanwhile 2000 ft higher I was attempting to teach myself to ski-----I'd never been before and was too cheap and proud excited to get going for lessons.
It all went really well until I had to snap my boots into the skis. I looked kind of like what a newborn colt looks like as it tries to walk for the first time. My legs were shaking all over the place, I fell down, it looked like I was getting tasered . Riding up the lift gave me some time to eavesdrop on fathers shouting instructions to their 7 year olds as they skied down below me. "Keep your weight on your front foot, Aiden! Make a pizza slice if you get going too fast!" It actually helped quite a bit.
I picked it up fairly quickly and by the end of the day I had ascended to the level of "nearly competent." It sucked skiing alone though. Each time I wiped out I could imagine JoAnna hysterically laughing at me with her palm over her clavicle as she usually does.
More good news.......We finally have some friends....kind of. I'd say we have about 3 couples who are at least 1/2 friends by now. So we're up to 1.5 friends. We even had a dinner date at 1 of the couples' house 2 weeks ago--it was a lot of fun. We waaaay overstayed though---- as usual.
Jo has this social disorder....she can't stop talking sometimes (perhaps related to her Chronic Nagging Syndrome???). We were at these people's house for over 4 hours. At the 2hr 45 min mark we had the first "Yeaaaaaaah it was nice havin' you guys over, we should do it again sometime" line. Didn't faze Jo---she blew right thru it. On she went..... baby clothes, cell phone providers, best childhood board games, Winter Olympics vs. Summer Olympics. {All the while, the food in the kitchen full of dishes hardened like concrete......bet that was fun to clean at 10:30 on a Friday night.}
At the 3:30 mark I fake yawned for the 6th time, glanced @ my watch and commented that its almost 10 o clock. She still had gas in the tank though-- 30 more mins worth. Her personal record for overstaying is 95 mins. It happened one night last year in Biloxi and was highlighted by the line "Yeah, my brother has a peanut allergy" at the 90 min. overstay mark. When the conversation is desperately being kept alive by obscure topics filed away in the far corners of your brain like "Allergies My Siblings Have"---- its time to pull the plug and let er die in peace.
Even more good news........Turtle is still pretty cute. And she has a new swimming pool she loves cooling off in.
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It all went really well until I had to snap my boots into the skis. I looked kind of like what a newborn colt looks like as it tries to walk for the first time. My legs were shaking all over the place, I fell down, it looked like I was getting tasered . Riding up the lift gave me some time to eavesdrop on fathers shouting instructions to their 7 year olds as they skied down below me. "Keep your weight on your front foot, Aiden! Make a pizza slice if you get going too fast!" It actually helped quite a bit.
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| [Thats Lake Tahoe in the background, pretty cool to see a gigantic lake so far up in the mountains.] |
More good news.......We finally have some friends....kind of. I'd say we have about 3 couples who are at least 1/2 friends by now. So we're up to 1.5 friends. We even had a dinner date at 1 of the couples' house 2 weeks ago--it was a lot of fun. We waaaay overstayed though---- as usual.
Jo has this social disorder....she can't stop talking sometimes (perhaps related to her Chronic Nagging Syndrome???). We were at these people's house for over 4 hours. At the 2hr 45 min mark we had the first "Yeaaaaaaah it was nice havin' you guys over, we should do it again sometime" line. Didn't faze Jo---she blew right thru it. On she went..... baby clothes, cell phone providers, best childhood board games, Winter Olympics vs. Summer Olympics. {All the while, the food in the kitchen full of dishes hardened like concrete......bet that was fun to clean at 10:30 on a Friday night.}
At the 3:30 mark I fake yawned for the 6th time, glanced @ my watch and commented that its almost 10 o clock. She still had gas in the tank though-- 30 more mins worth. Her personal record for overstaying is 95 mins. It happened one night last year in Biloxi and was highlighted by the line "Yeah, my brother has a peanut allergy" at the 90 min. overstay mark. When the conversation is desperately being kept alive by obscure topics filed away in the far corners of your brain like "Allergies My Siblings Have"---- its time to pull the plug and let er die in peace.
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| [She goes nuts splashing herself to cool down after her runs.] |
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