Yesterday started off ok but in the afternoon a squall came in with blowing wind and snow. It was so bad, the pass was closed instantly and then even though the highway was open, you couldn’t see where you were driving. I picked Ty up at 4:20 and then headed home but stopped at the grocery store first. When we came out, it was blowing so hard we couldn’t see to find our car. Once we found it we decided to go straight to get Lori as I figured Dowd Junction (which are the curves between Vail and our exit) would soon be closed. So we went to the hospital to get her and Jag was at basketball practice. He had to go to his friends house as we couldn’t get back at 6:30 to get him. Turns out 2 other boys were also stuck at Zach’s house. Finally it let up around 7:30 or 8 so I headed out to get Jag around 8:30. It took me an hour to get him and get home including stopping for gas. His basketball coach never made it to practice which none of us knew or I would have just grabbed him at 4:20 also.
We had some more snow last night and I think are in for another 9 inches today. Tomorrow is Ski Friday for the school so it’ll be a great day with all the snow. Not sure if the pass is open or not.
Lori’s other surgery scheduler, who has been on maternity leave, quit yesterday! This was sort of a shock but not really. It’s just the timing which is bad. Good news is she can now train two people at the same time and in the long run, the team which be much stronger.
We’re all off to school and work early today. Dixie has Sharon (Don’s daughter) and Paul (her husband) coming to stay during the kids Winter Break, so we’re going to Hawaii. Jag lands back in Denver on February 10th with the school, from Hawaii, and we’ll turn right around and get back on a plane at 6 am February 11th and go right back to Hawaii. It took me about 3 1/2 hours on the phone with United and Marriott to finagle a virtually cost free trip using 300,000 Marriott points and some vouchers from United from when they bumped us from our flight coming back from Europe last summer. It took me about 10 years to earn 300,000 points but I just decided, what am I saving them for! I have a distributor there I need to meet with, so the Company can pay for our rental car. So all in all, I managed to use every trick and angle I could to make it happen. With Lori and I both really having no Christmas vacation, I told her yesterday driving to work, that I’ve decided we’re just going. I called Dixie to see if she wanted to go but she said she better stay home as Sharon and Paul have already bought their tickets and will be there for 2 weeks. Lori is going to fly out in a couple of weeks to go see Dixie before they arrive. We’re still going to try to all go to California in March to see her as the kids get another break around the end of March or first of April. The weather in California will be much better then anyhow. So, t-minus 30 days until we are on vacation! Time to get in shape, ha. This was the only time to go as Dr. C leaves on the 10th of February to go to Japan with the U.S. Ski Team. So it’s perfect timing, and we can’t freakin wait!
Time to run, take care, have a great day and God Bless.