Well yet again we've been kind of late in this whole blogging thing... now for the excuses:
1. We're really busy
2. Emily was gonna do it...
3. Chris was gonna do it...
4. Sundays go by so stinkin' fast that we don't remember until the middle of the
week
5. The week goes by so stinkin' fast that we don't remember until the next weekend.
Well, whatever, here we are now...
So over the last three weeks, here's a few highlights:
Frozen Lakes
Yep, they freeze over here! So much so that you can walk, drive, and build little shacks (I mean shanty) on to sit in while you fish through the ice. None of the fishing stuff really appeals to us, and no way we're driving on a lake... but walking on one was enough adventure for one day. Oddly enough the two usually brave ones were mostly terrified, and the two typically timid ones were totally into it. Go figure!
Embracing Technology
Last week we took another couple step towards embracing technology:
1. Saw our first movie in 3-D. Now we've seen the old 3D's where you wear the red and blue glasses, but not the new kind with the mostly real looking geek glasses. And frankly the old ones were stupid. Stuff was 3-D if you imagined it to be, otherwise it was all just off color. So we've been pretty much mocking all you folks paying the extras $3 to wear the geek glasses assuming the new 3D technology was pretty much like the old. Well, it was snowing and the movie we wanted to see was only playing in 3-D by the time we woke up, so we thought, "what the heck?" and went for it. Holy cow, freaking awesome! We don't usually get all jazzed up about stuff like this, but how crazy cool it was (although Emily did feel dizzy for about half the movie...)
2. Chris inherited an IPad; it was a 'pass down' from a Northpointe staff who got the newer version. He thought he would give it a shot just to see what all the hype was and is now almost inseperable from it. Which leads to number 3...
3. With the hand-me-down IPad came the Kindle for IPad e-reader. Chris has always sworn that he would never be able to convert to e-reading because of his love for the printed matter... yah, well that's totally changed. I think the big reason was because his slight germaphobia about holding a book that some other hygienically challenged person has read in both the bathroom and bedroom then returned to the library was solved by checking out digital editions.
Adventure Sports
There's a local spot called The Ledges... it's about the best climbing you can find in mid Michigan (nothing very tall but awfully easy to get to!) So we hit an "unusually warm day" (about 40 degrees) and decided to go rock climbing in the morning-- all four of us. Awesome! Then after lunch it snowed...
Chris Learns to Ski
...well sort of. This weekend was our student Winter Retreat and Chris ponied up to take a ski lesson with about 15 eight year old's in an effort to not kill himself or anyone else on the mountain. Not too bad. Can't say he's "into" the whole skiing thing, but at least it was fun.
