Winter Break

This winter break was fantastic! It was so great to have Jake around without having to worry about work or studying. We hung out relaxing a lot and threw in some fun adventures. Here's some of what we did:

Jake played some video games. The universe was a little bit out of whack, because Jake was really cold for most of it and I was really hot (usually it's the other way around. I'm always the cold one. Thank you, Paige for keeping me warm). One evening Jake was so cold he pulled out his winter gear to wear while playing.


We worked on a few puzzles (I LOVE doing puzzles!). Here's a picture of one of them completed:


We also ate a lot of food. For one meal I made green eggs and ham:
(Justine, please notice that even when the eggs are green the cheese goes on AFTER cooking!)

We ordered a pizza one evening using Dominos' online ordering. We ordered a specialty pizza and then removed the toppings from half of it to make it plain cheese (or so we thought). What showed up was the pizza pictured below. Half specialty, half plain crust. Fortunately, we called Dominos and they sent us a new pizza.


We also ventured downtown a couple of times and visited some of the museums. We saw the International Spy Museum (we got really discounted tickets). It was cool, but not really worth paying full price for it.

Then we stopped by the Air and Space Museum to see the new exhibit they recently opened. This exhibit includes an interactive that I helped test as part of my work with Oberg Research. We spent a few minutes playing with it and other cool interactives in the exhibit.


Later in the week we went to the US Holocaust Museum with the Fowles. This museum does a really good job in portraying the horror of the holocaust. Depressing museum, but fun day out with the Fowles. I didn't take any pictures that day, which is unfortunate because Alex (their 5 month old) is ADORABLE.

By the end of break Jake had grown an impressive beard. He shaved all but the mustache off and we took pictures of it that he calls "a tribute to his dad." After the pictures he shaved the mustache off (at my request).

Overall, it was a FANTASTIC break and we had such a great time together.