a fun trip!

I robbed this pic from my friends blog. Unfortunately, not many of my own pics turned out.

During thanksgiving break Brad had conspired with his law school buddies to go stay in a condo in coure de lane together for a night. One of the guys even made it a surprise for his wife, which made me and another girl nervous because we were her surprise. What if she had expected some romantic getaway and she got 2 rowdy families! But it worked out great. We met up at Olive Garden for lunch where we surprised Debbie, ate lunch and one couple almost got their lunch for free. We then hit up Target, shopped a little, got groceries and headed to the condo after picking up some pizza. We went swimming before dinner, where we piled into our expedition to drive to the pool house, that's 6 adults and 5 kids! Our front seat had a couple and their 1 yr old, the middle row had an extremely tall guy 2 kids and the rest of us crammed in the trunk where we layed the seats down. Sweet memories. At the pool, the guys sucked it up and swam in the cold swimming pool with the kids. The ladies chatted at the side of the pool until the kids mouths were turning blue and chattering. We all changed into pjs and ate pizza, put the kids to bed and then it was party time. We stayed up late playing some really entertaining games, with the best company. My stomach hurt the next day from laughing.

We all decided to go for a walk down to the boat dock. Took some pictures, threw rocks in the lake and took a group shot (where Debbie's camera fell off the pole just after the timer went off, hope it's OK). Brad bet Matt that he couldn't swim 30 yards in the freezing lake. Well, that is exactly what he did. He changed into his swim suit and just jumped into the water and swam. On the way back he was slowing down making us nervous, but he made it. We were so impressed. Mind you that we were all bundled up in coats, hats and scarves and he just swam 30 yards in the freezing lake!! Definitely entertaining!

Good times with good friends. I'm especially grateful for these friends who make life easier while in law school. I don't know what I would do without the support of friends while going through this, somehow they make it seem not so hard.