It's been so nice while we have been in Florida, I am beginning to get quite used to it. Going back north in a few days is not seeming so nice. Since I have started to feel better, I have been going out a little more.
Friday Mom and I went out around 9:00 to see what was still available for purchase during the "after Christmas" sales. Not too much excited me overall, but JC Penney's was having a HUGE sale on sweaters (after all it's been in the upper 70s for days) and I was able to get 5 sweaters for a little more than $40. While we were gone Morgan got to draw on the sidewalk with her new chalk. I am surprised my dad wasn't right behind her wiping it up!
That evening we had a really fun time at a restaurant called Hofbrau Haus (beer house) which if you can't tell by the name, is an authentic German restaurant. The atmosphere of the restaurant was very much like the beer tents in Munich during Oktoberfest. The beer served in this restaurant is brewed in Germany strictly for this restaurant (I think it's a chain but am not sure). Everyone was seated at long tables with benches pulled up to them. There was free beer until the kegs ran out (no, I am not making this up) for their "house" beer, waitresses and waiters in appropriate dress, and all the sausages, fried meats, and spaetzel you could imagine! The best part of the evening was when the band asked everyone to stand on their seats (which 80% of the restaurant did) and we all did the Chicken Dance! What fun. The food was not really great, but the atmosphere made up for that.
Yesterday we ventured out toward the beach to enjoy the gorgeous weather. It was 82 degrees with a breeze (gusty at times, but overall nice.) Morgan had an AWESOME time running around, flinging sand everywhere, and picking up shells as she went along.
We came home to watch an interesting WVU football game as the Mountaineers eeked out a win in the Meineke Car Care Bowl against University of North Carolina. Then Mom and I ventured back out to run some errands and we just enjoyed the rest of a gorgeous day while the men turned from WVU football to WVU basketball.
I am not sure what is on tap for today....I think we'll be stuck inside most of the day taking down Christmas and packing up for another year. We realized that my parents have now spent 9 Christmases in this house (which any of my military friends will realize is a real record) and we are pretty sure there will be a 10th and 11th before they pull up roots and move north back to Morgantown and the acre of property that is waiting for them there.
I hope you are all decompressing from the holidays and enjoying time with family before we are all back to the swing of things in the new year. I probably won't post until after the new year as we will be heading back home and will have to unpack from here and pack up Christmas ourselves. Be safe on New Year's Eve and we will see you all in 2009!
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