Quiet Spring

More than two months since the last update? No wonder people complain. Fortunately, you're not missing much.

Earlier this month, we went to Illinois to celebrate Sarah's Uncle Don and Aunt Carol's 50th wedding anniversary. We stayed at the nearest hotel, which was apparently the fanciest hotel in town; the turndown service included cookies and milk, and they laid out our bathrobes and slippers, too, as well as starting a fire in the fireplace. Not bad. The bathroom was larger than our hotel room in London.

The official festivities were on Saturday afternoon (March 1), and featured a buffet lunch, a slideshow, and some brief but heartfelt speeches. Later, we adjourned to an Irish bar in St. Charles for many beers. Many, many beers. Sunday, we lunched at Mill Race Inn before stopping by the Olsons to hang out even less formally with the other out of town guests. There might have been beer there, too. Oh, and we picked up a few bottles at Fox Valley Winery, too. We're really not the lushes it may appear, but when the opportunity arises...did we mention Greg bottled a lager last week?

Sarah's still in school, although this week is spring break. Her completely pathetic (but completely mandatory) new personal home page is here. Don't laugh: she got 100 out of 100 on it. The other class is about how to be a better reference librarian; anti-Google rants are common, yet futile.

Today we finished up the at-home mail-in version of the crossword tournament. Preliminary results imply that Sarah might have beat Greg again, but we won't know for sure for several weeks.