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Monday, December 01, 2008

Thanksgiving trip!

Hello, hello.

Happy belated Thankgiving! We just got back from our holiday trip back to MI. We spent the entire week back home with family. It was very nice to relax, eat great food, be with family, and not have to worry about work.

We ended up driving, instead of flying, so that was fairly tiring. We made great time on the way home, only taking about 9.5 hours total, however, on the way back to DC we hit traffic and it ended up taking a bit longer. I really hate traffic. I don't really understand it. We spent approximately an hour in Pennsylvania going between 0-20 mph. Come to find out, there was a single car pulled off to the right side with their flashers on, changing a flat tire. Perhaps 200 meters ahead of that, there was a second vehicle off to the left side, flashers on, apparently also changing a flat tire. As soon as we passed the second car, the traffic completely lifted and we were going 70+ mph again. I couldn't believe it! An entire hour because of two cars, which in their defense, weren't in the way at all. It was sickening how fast the cars picked back up after we passed the two stopped cars.

Anyway, enough about the agony of traffic.

The trip itself was great. We made several trips between my mother and my wifes mother's house. That trip is about 1.5 hours, and we seemed to make it almost every single day. We spent a lot of time in the car for this trip! It was worth it though, spending a lot of time with both of our families. My mother made thanksgiving dinner, and we had the in-laws over to join us. That was nice. Dinner was great, though we forgot to serve the cranberries, which I look forward to each year.

We picked up our wedding photos during our trip as well. We ordered a bunch and they turned out really well! I'm pretty excited. We'll need to spend some time making a wedding photo album/scrapbook. I'll probably have to buy a ton of frames in the next few weeks as well, as we decide where in the house we'd like to show them off. Unfortunately, we don't have the digital rights to the photos (yet, I'm hoping we can work something out with the photographer) so I can't share them online. If we're able to get the digital copies, I'm hoping to post them online so everyone can enjoy them! They really are beautiful.

Today was back to work. It's hard getting back into the swing of things, but the day's going fairly quickly. Busy busy! The end of the quarter is in about 3 weeks, so I'll be quite busy until then. At least staying busy makes the days go by fast. :)

That's all for now!

Stay warm!

JMB

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