Sat 8 May

Well, we woke up this morning to snow on the rooftops, but thankfully the pavement had enough residual warmth that we won't have to shovel. Still, it was rude to watch thick snow falling as we came home from First Nighters, and to have to use the snow brush to clear off the car. Fortunately in Wisconsin we don't put the brush away til about August.

Looking forward to the Cultural Fest today. Don't suppose it will do much for my calorie count, but this is one feast I allow myself guilt-free. I can still try to make better choices among the myriad of options, but I won't deny myself things I can only get once a year.

Oh, I forgot to tell you, Christianah is going to be a grandma! I'm invited to a baby shower for Abby on Sun, May 23 in Sun Prairie. I plan to drive down for it and am hoping Linda Weitz might want to ride along.

Regarding the wedding, the first step would likely be to contact your airline and see if you can modify your return ticket from Oregon to stop off in Madison or CWA, then continue on to Richmond on Sunday or whenever you would need to be back at work. This may be expensive, so you have to decide how much extra you're willing to spend. It would be nice if you could arrange to fly home with me on Tuesday. I'm flying Delta 1482 at 8:50 am 6/1/10 from Portland to Minneapolis and Delta 2870 at 3:10 pm from Minneapolis to Madison. Then we could ride back to Point together, you could stay at our house, and either borrow Dad's truck to go to the wedding on Saturday or we could check out if a rental car isn't too expensive. We'll need the car to get Grandma to church as I really don't think she can get in and out of the truck any more. You could either stay over in Eau Claire Sat night after the wedding and come to Point on Sun depending on what time you need to fly out to VA. We would take you down to Madison, but it would be best if you could arrange your flight later in the day as we're supposed to sing at St Mary's in Wausau that morning. This is the best I can do off the top of my head; if I have better ideas, I'll let you know.

Oh wait, another option. You could change your return flight so it just goes from Wisconin to Richmond after the wedding and ride back from Portland to Wisconsin with Dad and Michael. There's a small back seat in the truck so it would be a little squooshed, but their hotel rooms have two beds so if Michael would share with Dad, you could even have a bed.


Food:

8:30 am Brown Cow vanilla 0% Greek yogurt, half blueberry scone, 147 g strawberries, green tea