Recovery Week

We got home from California well after midnight on Monday. I had to work in just a few hours (we always try to squeeze every last second out of vacation!), and our return was jarring, to say the least. It had dumped snow on DC again, meaning we spent most of the trip back concerned about flight cancellations. That and, after 65 degree weather in Fresno, it was 8 when we landed and the roads were terrible. We slipped and slid the whole way home, wishing we were still on the West Coast.

We needed a recovery week at home after our trip, though, and enjoyed every minute of it. We gutted out the week, and spent the weekend catching up on sleep and laundry. We obsessively followed the Iditarod, with the help of our own Alaska Insider. (It just wound up today, and WHAT an epic finish!) And we both went for a swim Saturday- Seth in the pool, and me in the Potomac. (I did a charity Polar Bear Plunge with my office. It was freezing.)  

We got to catch up with some great Walter Reed friends this weekend, too, which we really need to do more often. We’re on the go so often, we sometimes forget to enjoy Bethesda! After I recovered from my icy dip, we checked out a hilarious comedy show with Taylor and Danielle (http://taylormorris.org/), and discovered a new local dive bar.

Sunday we helped Flip and Jess (https://www.facebook.com/FriendsOfFlip) move to their new place in Gaithersburg, and they rewarded us with margaritas and delicious Salvadoran food at their new local dive.

And that’s about all our news- we’re finally caught up, just in time for daylight savings to throw us for another loop.

The photo of the week is of Seth’s admission letter to the University of Maryland kinesiology graduate program. I’m super proud of him, and excited about this new chapter in our adventures.