Snow???

I woke up yesterday morning, and thought I must have my dates off. I thought for sure yesterday was April 1st, because I was certain someone was playing an April Fool's joke on me....it was snowing!! It rained all weekend, and I guess yesterday morning it turned cold enough to snow. The snow melted as soon as it hit the ground, but still...I thought it was spring! Today we are under a winter weather warning, supposed to get up to 9 inches of snow by this time tomorrow! Wow! Well, at least it makes our trip to the beach that much more exciting! If it's 30 and snowing here, think how wonderful 70 and sunny will feel!

Only a few more days until we leave town. The girls don't have school Friday, and it turns out Pavan took Friday off too, so we are going to leave Rhinelander Thursday night and head to Minneapolis. That will give us all day Friday to hang out at Mall of America, and then we fly out Saturday morning. Hooray! I will take lots of pictures during our trip, but won't be posting any of them, or any journal entries until we return to Rhinelander. We aren't taking a computer along, as we've heard that internet access is very expensive at the beach. Besides, it's a vacation! I just want to sit on the beach, watch the kids splash around in the water, and enjoy time with family.

Not much going on around here. This week is pretty uneventful, which is a nice change since we have a lot to do before we leave town. Merrill school are on spring break this week, so the dance studio is closed. Tomorrow the girls have dentist appointments, and Kindra has youth group. Then we'll skip all of our classes at the YMCA on Thursday so we can head to Minneapolis.

My dad came up last weekend to visit. It was great having him here. He arrived Friday evening just as we were getting ready to go put gas in the camper, so he hopped in and went with us! After Pavan filled us up, we pulled into a parking lot and opened up all the slides so Dad could take a look at the whole camper. Of course, the day after we brought it home from the dealership, the leveling system wouldn't work! So we had it home one day, and then took it right back to them. They are going to keep it while we are out of town, and fix a couple of things.

As we pulled out of the driveway to get gas, you could hear all these little branches scraping the sides of the camper. So Dad suggested we head to Menards to buy a telescoping saw contraption to cut those branches. Saturday we ran some errands in the morning, and then the men went to work! They spent several hours cutting down branches all up and down our driveway. If you've seen our driveway, you know that's quite a task! It's a quarter mile long, with thick woods closing in on either side. Plus there a large circular drive by the house that had to be cleared all around! They did a great job, and I even went out and helped stack up the wood for awhile. We'll probably get DJ to come out this summer and chip most of the wood. We still have some piles along side the driveway from a heavy snow we had last year, that needs to be chipped too. I think we have enough now to justify the cost of renting a chipper!

I better get going. I can hear the washer beeping at me, and want to keep on top of the laundry so we can pack tomorrow evening.

More later,

Rebecca