This year our annual trip to North Carolina to celebrate our March birthday boys had happen a little earlier than normal. With the girls' parent-teacher conferences happening on the 9th/10th, I thought it was a good excuse to miss the Friday half day and book it out of town after their back-to-back conferences on Thursday afternoon. The flights looked good and it all seemed to be going off without a hitch...until...we waited and waited for out delayed flight. Then because paying passengers were able to hop to the later (now earlier) flight, we were stuck sitting around the terminal for a few extra hours. It would have all been a little more tolerable if we'd have thought we had a good shot out before 11pm. Instead, we tried everything to keep ourselves busy and not worried about what was to come. And then suddenly, just before the 5:30pm flight took off at 9:15pm, we got word that we were on. And away we went!
It wasn't a long visit but still we managed to pack in a few fun outings. I took Jordan and Dad out for BBQ on Friday afternoon since the rest of the Sprenz household was working or at school. And it was surprisingly tasty for a no-name place in a strip mall. When you're in NC and you see a lot of blue-haired old ladies chowing down, you know you're probably in the right place. And we were. Carolina harped at the waitress to serve her drink and the veteran made sure to put the little brat in her place by delivering her Pepsi last. Oh yes, this was the real deal and they even served it all up on cafeteria-style plastic dinner plates. We also squeezed in a mandatory trip to Target with Grandma and the girls were in toy store heaven picking out new stuffed animals to go with the Peeps-flavored Oreos we bought (SPOILER ALERT: they were as disgusting as I imagined). We also grabbed a couple of birthday cards and gag gifts for our birthday boys. Jordan scored a luchador bottle opener and Grandma got a set of silicone ice cube trays shaped like dentures. Lots of laughs and some fun board game nights completed the weekend. And if all this felt like a flashback to Easter weekend last year, there is a good reason. It really did feel like spring and everywhere I looked I thought maybe we were a month ahead. But then Sunday morning we woke to a light dusting of snow--yes, snow in Raleigh!--and I snapped right back to the end of winter. Luckily, our flight home was much less eventful and we were in a cab ride home (with a farting driver--YUCK!) before we knew it. Nice to be home again after our adventures in the 'burbs and happy we got to see everyone we love in NC in one place. Now for the real spring to begin.
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