O what a fun weekend!
Miles came to Chicago wednesday night, my sister flew in thursday and late thursday night we drove onto Anoka, Minnesota. Driving there through the night Mike and Miles held down the front seat, with lots of energy drinks and John Mayer sing-alongs. Meg and I mostly made a nest with blankets in the backseat. We arrived sometime before 5am i think and slept in till like 11am... and it was awesome! we had a belated thanksgiving with the colago crew friday and that was great, watched lots of home videos of all the kids (which i love to see) and how could i forget we finally got to meet Owen Arthur Martineau who basically stole our hearts. He was so precious a perfect mix of Casey and Marie.
(start a blog Marie, do it, do it)
Saturday was the couples shower Mikes parents threw for us. So much fun! Got to meet a lot of Mike's high school buddies and hear all the stories from back in the day, so much fun, eat delicious cake and drink good punch and all the awesome singing. It just made for a wonderful wonderful holiday. We all had so much fun!
Early Sunday morning we had to leave unfortunately quite quickly because a storm was headed to chicago. It dusted minnesota and was moving down, so we packed up the car as quickly as we could and headed out. Traffic was kinda lame and so that took a long time and then in Milwaukee we got caught in the storm. It wasnt too bad it just took some time to navigate through it. A little slipping and sliding and Me Meg and Miles had to push the car up a hill a little but in the end it was fine. When we finally got to chicago it was 10:30 at night we had been driving for 11 hours. And Mike and Miles dropped us off and continued on down to Michigan, another 4 hour drive. They were exhausted. But Safe. Mike got to hang out down in Calvin a bit, slept in Miles room and saw Grand Rapids.
Came home and took me and meg to Gullivers for pizza and then promptly fell asleep, meg and i headed out for some sightseeing. We went downtown and walked around a bit. It was beautiful all the christmas lights were on and decorated down town. We took silly pictures and had a really good time.
It was awesome!
Meg has to go home today unfortunately.
But it was a well travelled trip!
And now she got to meet all the Colago's!!
And enjoyed a bit of snow, southern CA has been so hot recently so the snow was a welcome change.
Finals hangs over us now and soon so so so sooon we will be driving again to MN and then off to CA for our wedding. I can not wait and it is coming so quick. I discussed flowers with my mom last night and those seem to be the last of the big details. It will be a party to remember and we hope people will enjoy themselves.
Well that is all for now i guess.
have a great day!
