Sometimes it seems like I pack all my travel into a short amount of time...and as very predictable, I end up being exhausted from it. Last Wednesday, Jackie and I headed to Union Pier, Michigan for my firm's annual retreat, at the Sandpiper Inn. All things considered, a good time. The attorneys in the firm end up working most of the day on Thursday doing our business planning for the entire year, budget review and planning, building issues, capital projects, the works. Its good to get all done in one meeting away from everything, but very tiring at the same time. Anyway, in the evening we all (the partners in the firm and the spouses) go out and grab dinner, usually at a pretty nice place each evening. It's always fun for me because I enjoy going to places I wouldn't normally go to. This year we checked out a place called Timothy's and a place called Soe's. Really enjoyed Timothy's, Soe's was good, but not as much fun.
After the retreat we headed across the State of Indiana to Fort Wayne to pick up the dog Ellie who was staying with Jackie's parents. Picked her up, headed home, and in a couple hours headed out to some friends (in that couple of hours I got our taxes done for this year, I hate waiting to get those done - so I at least got that out of the way). We were at Richard and Sara's house and visiting with them, their 5 week old baby Bennett, along with Todd and Jenn Frankowski (sp?), who I hadn't seen since college. Fun night, good times catching up and just being with friends.
On Saturday we headed up to Lansing for my sister's birthday (which is actually today), and spent several hours up there. Another enjoyable afternoon, got to spend more time hanging out with my nephew Gavin, and just seeing my parents and my sister is always nice.
But the crammed in traveling takes it toll. Jackie came down with a cold on Wednesday and really hasn't had the opportunity to rest and help it get better because of all the traveling. On Wednesday of this week I will be on the road again to Lansing to visit my Dad who has surgery on his colon tomorrow afternoon. So it will be a crazy Wednesday to Wednesday for me, but hopefully after that things will settle down for a bit and Jackie and I can catch our breath, relax a bit at home, and continue to work on various house planning projects and get involved in various things in the community. Being out of town a lot makes that more and more difficult. Anyway, that's been the week, hopefully the upcoming week will be void of any huge surprises.
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