Weekend in Morris

At 12:30 on Friday, Jeff, Rachel and I left International Falls and drove down to Morris Minnesota to spend the weekend with Stephen. We arrived at his house at 6:15 pm and took him to dinner at Jose's burritos. It was a place he'd talked about as having really good Mexican food. It was delicious and Jose took a liking to Rachel and felt sorry that he couldn't make her the item she requested because he was out, so he said he'd surprise her. He made her a chicken dish that she thoroughly enjoyed.

We enjoyed a walk around town and then relaxed and talk back at his house. We had decided to just sleep on the floor at the house he is renting this summer, both to save money and to be able to play board games with him. Saturday morning I got up and fixed pancakes for breakfast. We then played Catan Germany, Ticket to Ride and Arkham Horror. All told we spent about 8 hours playing board games on Saturday. I made zucchini egg foo yung with rice for dinner.

Sunday morning we slept in and had a leisurely breakfast about 10am. I made eggs in a nest. Rachel wanted to continue playing Portal on Stephen's x-box so the rest of us went for a walk through his neighborhood (including seeing his bosses house, one of the oldest in town). It is a very interesting neighborhood with lots of fascinating architecture and variety.

We had planned on bbqing before we left to come home, but after the late breakfast we weren't hungry and Jeff was beginning to get antsy to head home. He had a rehearsal at 7 for the show this week. So we left to come home about 12:30 and arrived home in time for Jeff to prepare for rehearsal and me to work on laundry (which by the way is very difficult to get dry without a dryer when it is raining every day).

I took a few pictures and will work on loading them soon. Overall, a great weekend and I think we were able to take Stephen's mind off of his fretting for a few hours anyway.

Diane