Where In the World...: March Madness

Wow, I know I said it last time, but my job just isn't good for this blog! Sorry for the lack of updates lately! I really don't have anything TOO exciting. Just day to day life. Things are going great right now. We're in the middle of our volleyball season, I won't mention our record, but I will say we're still having a ton of fun!

Below, I'm including some pictures of some recent events. Monique's mom, Sandy, was in town for about 2 months and they had us over and taught us how to make salsa and guacamole. It turned out delicious! The secret ingredient to the guacamole? A spoonful of mayonnaise, it made it perfect!

Monique also held the St. Patrick's Day party the weekend before St. Patty's. Taylor had to work on Sunday and so he only stayed for a little while. I fully planned on going back home with him because I had a busy Sunday, but a few mojitos later I changed my mind and stayed the night with everyone else! For some reason my mind got confused and temporarily thought I was 21 again...but don't worry...my 26 year old body took over in the morning and fiercely reminded it why we don't regularly act like that! Boy I paid on Sunday!

Here are a few of the officers in the squadron: Eric, Greg, Chris, Chris, and Taylor. We have one deployed (Monique's husband) and there were 3 missing that night...I think that's everyone. It's a fun group :)

Pictured: Sharity, Monique's landlord, Monique, and Eric. Monique had glowing green glasses for everyone. And please notice the pots of gold she put on her wall! Such detail!

Our St. Patty's picture :)

The girls, we were missing Jenni and Courtney. There aren't many of us!!

We had a fire pit outside we sat around all night. Or in Chris' case, jumped over. Oh the wise decisions a few drinks inspire!

Last weekend we went on an Outdoor Rec ski trip to Corvara, Italy to go skiing. It was a day trip on Saturday. We left at 6am and returned around 7pm. It was a 2 hour drive to the slopes in the Dolomites, part of the Italian Alps. There was a big group from work who all went and we had a ton of fun! Minus the bus ride. We rode in big vans and the road was straight up hair pin turns the whole way up the mountain. Our driver drove like a bat out of hell, I'm not even kidding. We were flying around the turns, I at first thought we were on a one way road because the road was so small and we were all over the place...nope, it was two way. We luckily took a break half way through because a kid in another bus got car sick. We stopped just in time because 3 people on our 11 person bus got sick outside when we stopped. Yeah, it was that bad! But we made it, all in one piece...sort of.

The place we skiied was HUUUUGE. There were so many slopes interconnected all over the place! We seriously decided you could spend a week there and never take the same run twice. The slopes were WAY easier than Austria and I was a big fan of these mountains! Here are a few pics from the trip.

Taylor and Greg. We skiied down a slope...notice the road. Yep, cross the road, then you can keep skiing! Talk about a ski town, huh?

I'm holding Flat Brian in this picture. I'm sure most of you have heard of Flat Stanley, well we had Flat Brian with us for a week or two to visit Italy and take some pictures. He got to go on a few adventures. Anyone who is not familiar, Flat Stanley is a book character of a boy who gets flattened by a bulletin board and then can fit in an envelope and go on cool trips. So the kids create a Flat Stanley and send it to someone to take pictures with him and then mail him back and teach the class about the place he visited. A cool way to learn about different cities, countries, etc.

The preferred pose for a bit of rest. Crazy boarders...Taylor and I stuck with skiing!

Flat Brian enjoying the scenery again!

A few other places Flat Brian got to visit...the market. He hung out with the fruits. The person behind the produce stand gave me some funny looks and got a good laugh out of me taking pictures of a paper boy!