The last two weeks have flown by!
Over Labor Day weekend, we drove down to Rochester to hang out with the fam. We also went down to St. Louis on Saturday to visit my uncle Dan who is in the hospital there. He had just made a big turn around and was doing really well... he even got moved out of the ICU while we were there!
On Saturday night, we had dinner at Syberg's by my aunt's hotel in St. Louis. Coincidentally, it was karaoke night! Erin and I sang a couple of songs. The place was pretty empty besides all of our family.
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| Brett and Matt shared 50 wings at Syberg's! |
On Sunday, we drove back to Rochester and had a cookout at my parents' house. My Dad made homemade ice cream = SO good! We made root beer floats with the leftovers for a snack later!
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| Best stuff ever! |
I spent this past week in Seattle for work. My boss had called me on Friday afternoon before Labor Day and asked if I could help out on a project there. I had to fly out Tuesday morning. I flew on Alaska Air and lucked out with the flight there. Some guy wanted to sit by his wife, whose seat was next to mine. So, he asked if I would switch with him. And by the way, his seat was in 1st class! Um, that's a no-brainer!
One of the guys I was working with and his wife took me to dinner for my birthday (Wednesday), which was super nice of them. We went to this seafood restaurant called Ivar's. The food was delicious!
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| Me with my birthday cake |
Oh, and the weirdest part of the trip to Seattle was the earthquake on Friday around noon. I was waiting for the elevator when I started hearing one of the elevators clanking more than usual. I just thought, hope I don't get that elevator. Then, I started swaying involuntarily - like my weight kept shifting from one foot to the other. I had no clue what was going on. I thought to myself "am I about to faint?", "am I sick?" = I was so confused and thought something was wrong with me! I looked down at the floor and tried to make myself stop, but couldn't. Strangest feeling. It finally stopped after about 15 seconds and then I hopped on the elevator and grabbed some lunch. When I got back to the office, everyone was talking about "the earthquake". Then, it clicked that I hadn't been swaying, it was the building that was swaying and I was just trying to balance myself! No wonder I couldn't make it stop!
I got back into town after midnight on Friday. Matt won husband-of-the-day award, because he stayed awake and picked me up from the airport. : )
Yesterday, we went up to the PO to watch the Iowa v. Iowa State game. I hadn't been there in a while. Fun times, but bummed that Iowa lost.
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| Birthday shot |
Last night, Matt and I met up with Ross, Erin, Brett and Sandi for dinner at Carmichael's to celebrate my birthday. We had so - much - food! I loved the carrot cake for dessert! Left there in a total food coma! Good times! : )
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| Check out Matt's lobster tail! Now you see it... |
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| Now you don't! |
