Some Catchin' Up

A bit's been happenin' around here. First, i've neglected to make any mention of the fact that our entire family and my father drove down to the Northern Virginia/DC area to experience the Inauguration! As you may know, my father's house in Virginia is still around, so we had a place to stay. Had some difficulties with the heat working (poor Dad was frozen). We arrived around 4am Monday morning and came back Wednesday afternoon.

We spent Monday taking Sam to a children's play center in Columbia, MD (an hour from our house in Springfield). He. Had. A. BLAST!!!!




Then at 4am on Tuesday morning (a popular hour for this trip), I dropped Ron off at the Metro station near our house. None too soon, come to find out: that station had some garage and traffic issues and soon they were closing off roads to it and the surrounding areas! Ron had a good time in DC for 14 hours! Check out his blog for some video. Also, click on the photo at the top for further amazing pics from boston.com (thanks for the link, Dad)!

On Saturday, Jan. 17th, my friends and I celebrated Girls Night Out (a monthly occurance) with playing Nintendo Wii Sports. We tried our hands at tennis, bowling and boxing, featured here in a short video. We had a ton of fun! Later i tried a brain game and really enjoyed that, too. Ron and i will cave at some point and treat ourselves to this game system. Tax refund time? We'll see.