Weekend

Our relaxing weekend turned into a kind of on the go weekend. Friday night we started watching the Olympics, but then started watching a movie we rented. We watched "In Her Shoes". It was very cute. It was odd watching Cameron Diaz in a semi-serious role. That night Laura's older sister called and we ended up making plans to go with her and her husband to the dog races on Saturday night. I had never been to the dog races and found it very exciting. What I liked about it was you kind of have control over how much you are going to loose. I loved watching the dogs race. There were a total of 14 races. It was nice because you were still able to sit and talk with the people you went with. The races lasted until 11pm. We then went over to Jimmy Buffett's "Cheeseburger in Paradise". So, by the time we got home it was close to 1am. We vowed that we would not get out of bed until at least noon. At 7:30am Laura was getting up and I shortly followed her. By 8:30am we were at the grocery store doing our weekly grocery shopping. When we got home at 10am we were exhausted. The rest of Sunday we just laid around the house. We watched another movied on Sunday..."Elizabethtown". That movie was so good. I loved it. I am a huge music person and the music was great throughout the entire movie.

On Friday night it started to snow and when we woke up on Saturday it was still snowing. I would say we only got a total of maybe 1/2 inch. Nothing like the east coast, but the way people were driving Saturday morning you would think we were in the middle of a blizzard. When we got up on Saturday I called the vet to see if they could get Sophie-dog in for a bath. Because it has been warm this winter, Sophie is shedding like you would not believe. She is leaving huge clumps of hair the size of a small cat all over our house. I brush her everyday, but she is still shedding. So, I called the vet to see if they could get her in. They said yes. When I went out to warm up the Honda it was a light fluffy snow. We get on the highway and are suddenly stuck in the middle of a huge traffic clusterfuck. Apparently there was a 25 car pile up. Once we got off the highway we realized the side roads were like a sheet of ice. We finally dropped the dog off and tried to figure out a way to get home without getting back on the highway. It was a mess.

Can't believe tomorrow is Valentine's Day. We decided that this year our gift for each other would be fish for our new aquariam. We have had to wait to let the water "cycle". I've been testing it every other day and the levels are back to normal. So, tomorrow night we are going to go pick out some fish. We have found this fish store about 15 minutes from us that we really like. When we first went in we were ready to buy a bunch of fish. The guy at the store talked us out of it and explained the whole thing about water needing to "cycle". We knew we were at a good store when he didn't try to sell us a bunch of fish that probably would have died because of the whole "cycle" thing.

This coming weekend both Laura and I have a 3-day weekend. YEA!!! I am sure we will plan a nice relaxing weekend and end up re-decorating our entire house.