I’ve never been a huge fan of New Years Eve.  Dressing up in something flashy and bejeweled and staying up really late has never been my cup of tea and actually makes me anxious and uncomfortable just thinking about it.  My only plan this year was to have dinner with my favorite old roommates at Toro Bravo which I was pretty dang excited about.  I mean, these girls are suurrriously my favorite.

But on Thursday, LaDonna called.

“Hi sweetie whatcha doing this weekend?”

“Well, not a whole lot actually.  What’s up?”

I thought she might be planning on coming to Portland to visit Adam and Corbin or something, but no.  She called to invite me up to Plain (just 10 miles from Leavenworth) to visit her and Jon and Teri for the weekend.  She had already looked into train tickets and I was set to go.  How could I resist such an invitation?  I had to bail on my roommates for dinner but they all sent me off with blessings and told me to go and have a good time.  And a good time I had indeed.  Usually, after a busy weekend, I’m pretty beat by Sunday night and by no means ready for a long week to start again.  But after I got home from the drive on Sunday, I felt relaxed, rested, and refreshed.

Long walks in the snow with LaDonna, cross country skiing with Jon, Snow mobile-ing with Teri, eating deer meat sausage for breakfast, sitting by the “fire” (a DVD of a fire burning…it was so real!) drinking red wine, chillin’ watching a movie.  It was near perfect.  The only thing that would have been better would be having Anthony there with us.

Thanks Jon and LaDonna for having me up for a visit!  And thanks Aunt Teri for the great ride home.  Love you guys!

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