April Showers brings...flooding
I think it rained for half the month. Mass amounts of rain paired with a major river in a valley equals lots of floods. This plays into the story a little later..
I spent most of the month of April excited to go up to Michigan for easter. I have a desk calender at work and I had marked the day we were to leave on it with a picture of Michigan and was marking the days until we left.
Finally, Thursday April 21 came and we started north after I got home from work. We got into Lansing around midnight and went to see Kelly and Mike, who waited up for us (everyone else had to work in the morning). We hung out at Mikes for awhile then Kelly and I headed back to her place. We stayed up for maybe another hour talking about wedding plans and the like, since this was the first time I saw her since she got engaged! The following morning I heard that the boys did not go to bed until about 4 in the morning. Crazy kids. This was also the first night that Nathan and I spent apart since we have been married, kinda weird.
After we got ready, Nathan, Kelly our friend Eric and I went out, dispite the cold and rain, to our favorite breakfast place ever, the Golden Harvest. There is always a line waiting to get in this little hole in the wall diner that seats about 40ish people at a time, but the wait is well worth it. I don't know what they do to make their food so good, but everything they make is wonderful. This time I had a waffle smothered in fresh blueberries. Delicious :)
Not long after brunch we headed north again to my parents house. My mom was anxious to see us, so we said our goodbyes and were on our way again. My mom had planned for my whole family to come over for dinner that night since everyone had been asking about us. I think there were about 20 of us altogether. Around midnight both Nathan I and were dragging from the night before. We went to bed, though there was still family around. We found out the next morning that there was family around until 4 in the morning...
The next day we slept in, which felt great. We hung out with the fam for awhile, then it was time to head off again, this time to Nathan's parents. Before we left we loaded the car with my bike.
We got to the Harris' late that afternoon. We had dinner, caught up with the family and played some wii. Then we went to visit Sanj and Mandy after Sanj got off of work. It was great to catch up with them, as they are in a very similar season of life, we were able to share stories of our newly married lives.
Easter Sunday we went to Church, then back to the Harris' for lunch/dinner and time spent chatting.
By the end of the weekend, the top three most commonly asked questions were:
How are you?
How is work?
How is marriage?
Good questions, I just was tired of answering them by the end.
We headed for home around 4 which put us in Louisville around 10. We had to drive through some nasty rain, which is exhausting. When we got off on our exit we found out just how much rain we had been getting. The road that we usually take to get home was completely underwater. There was a road closed sign at the start of the street, that we thought was there from one of the events that happened recently, so we drove around it. We soon found out that it was there for a reason as we started to drive through water that covered a high water sign up to its edge. We had to find a new way home from there which took a good 15 minutes on account of the streets around our neighborhood don't like to connect. So we headed in the general direction of where we wanted to be until we found a road that looked familiar. Not such a fun activity at 10pm after a 6 hour drive. Thankfully we live on the top of a hill so no flood damage for us.
Other April happenings included starting a new, smaller family group. We joined a CSA group to get fresh produce from local farms. We took a couple bike rides.
That was mainly a montage of easter weekend, but good times nonetheless :)
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