20 degrees = warm ?!?!?

This week I went to Illinois for a meeting and to tour a couple of other Monsanto sites. Sunday morning Jason & I headed to the cities to do some shopping before he dropped me off at the airport. We got to eat lunch at Chili's!!! And after a few unsuccessful stops I was able to find a couple of new shirts- yes, my old ones are getting a little snug :) I flew into St. Louis that afternoon and headed to Centralia to stay with a friend I used to work with. She invited some others from work over and we had pizza that night. Monday I went to where I used to work and got to visit my old boss and coworkers before heading to Mason City.

After a good meeting on Tuesday I headed back to St. Louis for my flight home. I arrived in St. Louis to 78 degree weather, but knew that was not the weather that awaited me back in Minneapolis. The freezing rain had started the night before and it was snowing pretty good by Tuesday afternoon. Jason left work early to make sure he made it to the airport in time to pick me up. After a slight delay we finally boarded the plane and sat for 30 minutes before finding out there was a ground stop in Minneapolis and they weren't letting any planes come in for an hour. Great news- especially since Jason was already sitting at the airport waiting for me! Half an hour later we reboarded and finally left for Minneapolis. My flight landed and we left the airport around 10:30. The snow had stopped, but the roads were not good so we decided just to find a hotel and drive back the next morning. My boss had emailed me earlier in the day and suggested if I did make it to the cities not to make the drive back because of the weather so I didn't feel so bad extending my business trip one more night. The next morning we headed home...the roads were decent, but the 2nd half of the trip was not great so we were glad we waited.

Since the weather was nice on Sunday and I don't check the weather I only had a light jacket when I got back to the freezing temperatures and snow in MN! I think from now on I will leave a heavy coat in both vehicles...just in case! Today the sun was out and it was actually a really nice day- the temperature even got above 20. We are looking forward to the 40s and maybe even 50s this weekend! That seems crazy since spring is only a week away.

Today was a catch up day at work- trying to get back on track after being gone the first part of the week. Nothing big going on for us this weekend- we will probably just be bumming around home. Though that isn't a bad thing after our semi-eventuful week. My feet & ankles will be glad to be propped up for a while. That is how most every night is spent at our house now with as many pillows as I can fit under my ankles while icing them down. I thought your ankles swelled when you were 8+ months pregnant and it was summer time! Oh well- I can't complain, everything else has been going great.

Yay for the Big XII tourney being on ESPN2, now if the Tigers can just win tonight!