Journey of a Kumquat: Week 202 and Week 114.5

The winters in Wisconsin are no joke. Not for the faint of heart or for the disorganized (success is losing only one glove so far). Weather is the top and the bottom of all conversations and plans are made around the weather (people in LA talk about traffic as people in Wisconsin talk about weather). I cannot say that I am a fan at this point. But the girls like it and Matt does too - so I am happy to be outnumbered. But really, this cold weather thing is strange to me - after living in warm weather all my life why would I want to (literally) add the layers?

We decided to go to Wausau to visit Grandma Drake somewhat on a weather related whim on Sunday. Wausau was so snowy - I have never seen so much snow outside of a movie. The snow banks in Wausau were insane - I felt like every street was its own walled city with the eight foot banks.

Kudos to the Burk family who met us in the treacherous weather at the old standby Sam's Pizza.

Grandma Drake broke her leg and her arm - she is in good spirits despite being off her feet for the moment.

Cousin Kala and her wedding were so pretty - so nice to be a part of it. Charlotte squealed that Kala was a princess! She really was with her prince Jordan. The girls were great dancers - they even slow danced together for Unchained Melody! Cute!

The girls made a snowman and Matt took them ice skating in a place that looked straight out of a Charles Schultz comic strip. Sophia even wore 50 year old ice skates that Matt wore!

We had brief visits with Ahna and Tim and DB and Laura - great to catch up with Matt's old buddies.

We have dubbed Sophia the grandpa whisperer as she and Bob are buddies this week. They were like Statler and Waldorf, chit chatting about the Barbie princesses and the motivations well into the late (Sophia) night of 10PM.

Wedding!