The Shed

Nam took advantage of this beautiful spring (nearly summer!) weekend to finish shingling the shed. He did a great job! Just in the knick of time too, since it has been pouring cats and dogs all day.

I'm just procrastinating, I have a final due tonight - just a question and a half to go - and one more Saturday. Almost finished with the semester!

Spring!

Happy April, I can't believe it's that time of year already! Since I'm in school this year, it'd nearing finals time. I have so much to get done but with the nice weather there's so many other things I'd rather be doing.

My mom was out to visit a few weeks back, we had a great time. It's great that her job allows her to travel out here so often.

Everything else around here is pretty status quo. Wishing my best to Clara when she begins here journey back to the states. Thinking of Emily in Kazakhstan and hoping she takes care of herself!

Keeping busy

I can't believe it's nearing the end of March already. Time has just flown by the past 5 months. I started a program at work in January that allows me to be a full time Masters student at the University of Maryland and only have to work part time. They pay for the classes and my pay stays at a full time rate. It's such a good deal I couldn't pass it up. Of course that means I'm now busy with homework all the time. Overall it isn't going too badly.

I'm now trying to condense 40 hours of work into a 20 hour week, so naturally work is quite busy. I've got my hand in all sorts of projects so I"m mostly content for now.

After having fallen off the exercise bandwagon this winter, Nam and I are both picking it up and hitting the treadmill a bit more often. Even Naruto tried to walk on the treadmill today :)

We're also really busy around the house. Nam is almost finished with our shed, just needs to shingle and side it. It looks great, he and his friends did an amazing job. We also had to rake, yet again, since there were leaves in hiding from this fall!

Spring keeps trying emerge, and we're looking forward to it.

The North Shore is Gorgeous!!

We went up the coast for our honeymoon to stay in the Cove Point lodge. It's a fantastic setting right on the lake. The sunrises on the cliffs were spectacular and sunsets by the jacuzzi didn't hurt either. We enjoyed ourselves through hiking and exploring the region. It was fun learning Minnesota history, shipping, mining and 3M. Very cool.

It was fun relaxing and listening to the locals. It was funny hearing them talking about going to "the city" for the weekend and later learn they were talking about Duluth. Robyn can't say she's a "country" girl anymore by their account.

We also stayed at a lighthouse for a few nights. It's a pretty interesting environment with other residents sharing the same lodging and bathroom. Kind of reminds me of Scotland really. The keeper kept us entertained with a fiddle and cooked us "moose porridge" ((Don't ask)).

So we're home again. Back to reality as they say but it's pretty cool still. We will post again soon!!

:)

Wahooo!!