skiing

This last weekend Caleb and I went up skiing. We drove up to the cabin on Saturday afternoon and returned on Monday (Caleb took monday off). On Sunday Caleb's cousin's skied, and on Monday Caleb and I skied while they hung out with the kiddos. Since we went up on a monday, the mountain we pretty empty. We skied straight into line. Also, Rachel loaned me her snowboard, so I snowboarded for part of the day and skied for part of the day. And let me tell you, I was looking pretty good on the snowboard (almost as good as Caleb on the skis)...that is until I totally fell on my butt on the really hard snow. From that point on, it hurt just to sit on the chair lift, so I switched to skiing. But it's nice to know that I can still make it down blue squares without too much trouble.

So the skiing was great, but so was getting out of the house and hanging out with my husband. Now that Caleb has a more defined schedule, I feel that it is more necessary to find time for just the two of us to hang out. In grad school it was really easy for him to take a random day off or to work from home. But now that he has a real job (hope I didn't offend any grad students here, but you know it's true... :-p), his days aren't as flexible, so it's just nice to have time to hang out.

And what trip would be complete without games! So of course in the evenings we played games. Actually, I think we had the closest scoring game of Agricola that I've seen: 46, 45, 44 for the top three scores. It was fun. As a side note: it's always nice to play games with new people because you discover new rules...or rules that you had mis-interpreted...or rules that your brother-in-law made up (OK, just kidding with you Titus. :-P) But we did discover a mis-interpreted rule to Agricola...