Spring has Sprung!

It's officially spring in wisconsin! The wind is going at full-force (making driving on the highway not a fun experience for me), there's thunderstorms being predicted every other day, and the temperature is jumping all over the place. needless to say, my allergies are going nuts.

It's also spring break at Maple Tree this week! it started last friday and will go through the rest of this week, which means I'll be at parents plus instead of school. This does have it's benefits, such as not having to wake up at 6 AM and drive 30+ minutes, being around adults all day, and being able to work off my laptop. oh, and i can listen to pandora radio and access facebook here. I do have to go in on wednesday to help the learning team update the site's school improvement plan, as well as pick up some things I left in my office.

My mom came to visit me this past weekend, which was a lot of fun!

Friday was spent getting facials, shopping on Brady Street (We bought gardening stuff for my herb garden, a super-cute jumper at yellow jacket, and baby gifts for two of my cousins) and eating dinner at Cempazuchi (SUCH GOOD FOOD!!!!! If you like spicy food, go there and get the chile relleno). After dinner we went to potawotami casino to see Louie Anderson perform and gamble a little bit. We only played slots, but my mom broke even and I lost $8, at which point I called it quits. We ran into Lizzy and her family at the lobby of the parking garage when we got back to the hotel.

We drove to Appleton on Saturday to meet with some family who live in the UP. I did the first leg of the drive, during which we had nothing but downpour. Naturally, the sky cleared up when my mom drove. Ate really good italian food for lunch, then did some shopping. I could sense my mom's aggravation after I tried on at least twenty bras at VS, so I made up for it by giving in to her pleas to let her clean my apartment. We went to target and bought a vacuum, floor lamp, and full-length mirror, then went back to my place and got to work cleaning. We didn't eat dinner until 9:00 at night. The food totally made up for it, though, since we went to Maharaja.

Sunday morning, we woke up to a broken toilet in our hotel room. When we told the front desk about it, they apologized and offered us a $40 gift certificate to buy breakfast at the hotel restaurant, which we gladly accepted. Went to the public museum and saw an IMAX movie called Under the Sea and the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit. The movie was great...then again, I'm a fan of any movie where the last five minutes are just sea lions swimming around with Octopus' Garden playing in the background. The exhibit was amazing, too. They had a lot of information on the history of bible translation, which reminded me of my group project I did for translation class at earlham. It was already 1:45 when we left the exhibit, so I dropped off my mom at the airport right after.

tonight is kickball practice, which I'm super-pumped for! Let's go team awesome!