Weekend in CT

A couple of weekends ago, we headed up to CT to spend the three-day weekend with Sarena, Adam, and the rest of the CT Sharp clan. It was THE worst car trip we have ever had on the way up, but even with that in mind, it was a wonderful and worthwhile trip.

Just quick note about the trip up ... We left at the peak of rush hour traffic. We went 13 miles in the first hour and in the first three hours, we averaged 30 miles per hour. If that wasn't enough, we hit three major traffic accidents on the way up. The last one we came across at 1:00am in the morning and it stopped all traffic on the freeway. For over an hour, we didn't move. Finally, I did some creative driving (i.e., driving the wrong way on the on-ramps), and using the GPS, we were able to use back roads to skip four onward exits before we were able to get back onto the freeway past the accident (we suspect it was an overturned semi). Anyway, we got to bed that night at 4am. It was a rough drive. Luckily, Elliana was fantastic throughout the whole drive; she slept through most of it.

And we had an awesome time while we were up there. We had one of the most laid back, relaxed Saturdays ever. We went to one of Jared's soccer games and watched him knock in a goal. Then we went on a picnic. Afterwards, we took a nap on the grass (which we hadn't done in forever). That afternoon, Heather and I saw our first lacrosse game ever, and it was awesome. Trevor was playing, and he did great! He basically led his team from a huge deficit to comeback and win in the last moments. He scored three goals and flattened most of the other team.

On the way home, Adam and I stretched our legs with a little 6 or so mile jaunt. About one mile from the house, we got stopped by a cop and told to take another route home due to some downed power lines, which would have added another 6-7 miles on our run. It was getting dark and cold, and I was already pretty exhausted (Adam was just starting to break a sweat). We tried to persuade him to let us go ahead; it wouldn't have been hard for us to just walk around the downed lines. But he wouldn't budge. It just so happened, though, that Sarena pulled up in a car right at that moment. Talk about listening to and heeding inspiration!

Sunday we spent some time hiking, playing games, and wrestling.

Elli was in heaven! I held her for a total of about 30 minutes because her cousins and her aunt and uncle were all vying to hold her. She loved it!

It was a short but wonderful trip, and we can't wait until Thanksgiving when we all get back together again.