But at least it gives me the excuse to pick up my favorite sick lunch at Bruegger’s. A plain bagel with plain cream cheese and a giant bowl of chicken spaetzle soup. Anytime I’m stuck sick at work this is always my lunch of choice 
Now just have to make it through the day until 5pm and then head to my first night of Geology class from 5:30-8:40. Hoping I can be home and asleep by 9:30!!!
The food Polly and I put together for the weekend was a huge success so I thought I would share our menu:
Breakfasts one and two: Quick 1 min oatmeal with brown sugar. Green tea.
Lunch one: Bagels and cream cheese, beef jerky, home mixed trail mix (cashews, honey roasted peanuts, banana chips, m&ms, yogurt covered raisins), fresh oranges
Dinner one: 2 cups instant rice, 1 can cream of celery soup, 1 can cream of chicken soup, 1 large foil packet of precooked/diced chicken- all mixed together and heated through and a little later the boys also made instant 4 cheese potatoes, instant gravy, and another packet of chicken.
Lunch two: Hard salami, pepperjack cheese, wheat thins, and bacon cheddar squeezy cheese from a can. Fresh oranges, velveeta shells and cheese, and more trail mix.
Dinner two: McCormick Zesty Italian Marinara sauce packet (add a can of tomato paste), whole wheat noodles, whole grain artisan bread- warmed on a rock by the fire.
Snacks throughout the trip (and breakfast three): Various flavored granola bars, trail mix, fresh apples and oranges, s’mores, kettlecorn, hot chocolate, propel flavor packets for water, and a few other things I can’t remember right now.
The food was a bit heavy but oh so delicious and worth every pound carried. We ate a good portion of it and didn’t come back with too many extras… Now I’ll just need to find a few new meal ideas for the next trip!!!
This past weekend was a Godsend after last weeks weather. The sky was blue, the air was warm, and the sunshine was luminescent. Friday we took off from work early and headed up to Lake Maria (pronounces Mariah) State Park in Monticello. We got up there around 3pm and grabbed our packs and started hiking in. We had a wonderful site (B15) that was up on a wooded hill and overlooked one of the lakes in the park. It was about a mile to hike in, a fairly easy hike. We enjoyed a fire and the sounds of nature and were able to sleep in the next morning. We hiked the long way out, about 3.5 miles.
Sunday was another beautiful day and we did a 10 mile bike ride. Biked into Rosemount to return some library books and pick up a book I had on hold. We’ve biked so much this season in cold weather that it felt so incredibly weird to be biking in the sunshine and not freezing our bums off. It was a refreshing experience.
Sunday evening,Matt and Megan, our fall small group leaders, picked us up to head to the Science Museum to see the Dead Sea Scrolls. The scrolls were amazing. The exhibit consists of lots of pottery and history about the scrolls. I was surprised at the amount of scroll displayed, I thought there would be more. There 6 pieces in all, and most of them were just that, pieces. The biggest piece was a scroll from Psalms, it was actually quite long. It was amazing to think that these scraps of parchment were able to withstand the test of time for 2000 years before being discovered. After the scrolls we had fun playing around in the rest of the Science Museum. Nathan really enjoyed the gadgetry they had to make fire, light, clouds, and other various things.
Eventually we wrapped up there and headed to Cosetta’s for dinner. I’ve eaten there once before, Nathan never. It was so amazingly delicious. We shared a few different dishes: lasagna, mostaciolli, gorgonzola pasta salad, and a slice of pizza. Mmmmm. So good. During dinner I commented that we shouldn’t have gotten so much food, we could have gotten tiramisu for dessert then. Nathan, being the awesome husband that he is, said we should just get some to go! So we did, we got tiramisu and a cannoli to eat at home later that night. It was delicious, but Nathan of course said my tiramisu is better
Not only is December the month of our 5 year anniversary and amazing upcoming trip to Peru, it is also the month that I will be graduating with my Associate of Arts degree!!!
I just got confirmation from my counselor that I can substitute Logic for the pre-college and college math courses!!!
~Nathan
~Amy
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