Back in action

Sorry for the long absence- we had our semester break from Feb 14th-18th.

Anyway, I met up with Danny in Portland, Maine on Thursday evening. We had Chipotle for dinner (it was Valentine's Day but we aren't big into celebrating things like birthdays, Valentine's Day or our anniversary) and it was amazing as usual but especially so after going for months without Mexican food of any kind! We had a busy Friday, first taking the ferry to Peak's Island in the Casco Bay. The island was kind of just like a little floating chunk of suburbia with houses, a school, a few cafes and some toursity stuff. Unfortunately almost nothing was open (I should have known better, living on a highly tourist-driven island during the off season...) So we walked around and just looked at the houses and then had lunch at an excellent little restaurant before heading back. That night we went to the Portland Museum of Art (free admission and free parking - woo!) for a few hours because Danny wanted to go on a "civilized date". After wandering around for about an hour (and about an hour of my new flats making my feet hurt) we went to dinner at a nice restaurant in the city. Danny got some kind of flu thing on Saturday so we didn't do much and then Sunday the roads were a mess from a winter storm that passed through. We did manage to get our rehearsal dinner invitations printed and cut and we finalized the men's outfits for the wedding. It was nice to get something accomplished. The drive back on Monday wasn't bad until I hit Canada- the roads were mostly just messy and half-plowed; when I got back onto the island it had started to snow again and was getting dark so I was glad I made it back relatively early.

I've begun to cough and feel feverish today which is a bad, bad sign for midterms starting on Friday. I have a bunch of things to do even aside from studying so I'm feeling a tad overwhelmed right now. Not sure if I will be updating frequently until after midterms, but honestly, any update I made would basically just read "Midterms, bleh." So perhaps that's a good thing!