Jenelle did a fb post the other day telling tales of our projects at home: walls down, stove out, hearth out, mailbox/numbers/lights sprucing up the entry, and cables under floor. Grandma watched Duder to keep the pace up and allow the kind of rapid-fire work that gets inside projects and outside projects done so fast you can't remember what all got done. That took the first several days of a week of vacation. The next several days were spent in the Twin Cities at Jennifer & Kevin's, even though they (mostly) weren't there.
We explored hip Edina, checked out Hennepin, hit St. Paul for the Children's Museum, munched a burrito loco on campus on a football Saturday, and did big city/yuppie errands. A cornerstone was a lengthy trip to IKEA to pick up the new island for the kitchen, which we'd spec'd online but still had some choosing to work out. In the evenings we pretty much camped it in their cozy place and enjoyed a movie or some Thai food - vacation!
It's been election season, too, and we had a pretty important election night party up at the Rapid River Pub. Carter was a champ (again) and the candidate hung in but ultimately the news wasn't what we'd hoped. We were both proud of Sharon's campaign and apprehensive about the way our new surroundings voted. As Jenelle put it: guns and God. Election Day. Sigh.
Wednesday, November 07, 2012