For Christmas, Aaron bought me tickets to see Trans Siberian Orchestra on Friday. I didn't know much about them, other than they were like a Mannheim Steamroller. I'd never really heard their music, so I set out with no expectations. I had a really good time. Aaron had planned on getting me a nice weather radio for Christmas (I am terrified by tornadoes), but ended up not finding what he wanted. The tickets were a last minute gift, so while we weren't at the complete highest location in the stadium, we certainly weren't on the ground floor either. This gave us a tiny bit of a problem because I'm also nervous when I'm far up (particularly in a situation like stadium seating where there is nothing to catch my fall or to grab on to). However, I sucked it up, and really enjoyed myself.

On Saturday, I drove the five hours up to Minneapolis to see my friend Jory. Seven people from a website I frequent all gathered up in the Twin Cities for a mini-party. We ate at Pizza Luce, played DDR (and other games) at Gameworks, then went back to Jory's condo, played catch phrase, and went to sleep. Pizza Luce has fabulous garlic mashed potatoes pizza. I need to figure out how to recreate it at home. I sucked at DDR, after being so out of shape, and now I'm determined to get a pad and the game for my playstation 2. What a great workout!

On Sunday, we went out to eat at a diner for breakfast, then Jory and I just hung out all day. I wrapped the trip up by scoring my steak (we had a bet that if I showed up he had to buy me steak) at Origami. Wow. Fabulous.

All in all, I'm back and relaxed. Thanks everyone for so much fun - and thank you Aaron for helping me out while I was gone with everything that you did in the house and also for watching the kids. I love you! :)

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