Minot Adventures

It has been way to long since I have posted. I have been in a slight funk. The freezy cold weather makes me not want to do anything. We have had several days where it was reached -20 and below that. I am kinda a sissy lala and refuse to go outside when it gets that cold. Turkey and me hang out in our pajamas or comfy clothes and play all day and watch movies. I go shopping for groceries once a week when it gets that cold because its too hard on my body and my car.

I have been having some issues with my hands more so now then before. When we moved up here I think I had about 20 glass cups. I am now down to 4. I dropped several in the sink the other day while washing dishes. I am looking into some plastic cups. I also break other things like plates and bowls, but mostly I just break cups. Turkey likes to remind on a daily basis that I break cups and things. She now won't go into the kitchen without shoes or slippers on because "Mom there might be broken glass in there." We went to Minot over Valentines Day weekend and looked for the perfect plastic cups. I had no luck! Turkey and I loaded up in the car on Friday and headed for Minot. I packed our suitcase for the weekend and there were some storm warnings so I packed our winter wear just in case. My dad always told me to be prepared for everything. When driving around town and a little outside of the town you see cars in ditches. I would rather be safe then sorry. Turkey and me got to Minot with out any major problems. When we were almost to Minot the wind blew a big plastic bucket into my lane. I am very glad we have such a good SUV. I slammed on my brakes and was able to avoid the bucket. It made my heart beat a little faster but other then that we were golden. Once we finally got into town and checked into our hotel we headed to the mall. While wandering the mall for a while we ran into some of the guys that James works with. It was a very random run in. We chatted with them for a while and wandered the shops. Turkey was thrilled as always to see them, for me it was nice to see some familiar faces. After we left the boys Turkey and I went and had some dinner. After dinner we went back to the hotel, the adventure of the evening began. We had arms full of shopping bags and Turkey's stuffed animals and blanket. We made it up to our room and found out our room keys didn't work. After going up and down the elevator to get new keys about a dozen times I got keys to the other room that was for my parents. I told the lady at the front desk that we were going to hang out in the pool until they figured out what was the problem with our room. They ended up having to remove the door handle and lock to fix a computer problem with the lock. We finally got our stuff out of that room late that evening. I was just glad we had a second room to hang out in. Turkey did not sleep well that night. She had so much excitement that my parents were coming to town. The room they ended up staying in was right across the hall from ours. They flew in around midnight. At 8:30 Saturday morning Turkey was ready to bang down my parents door to see them. We went across the hall and woke them up. Everyone was excited! My poor parents didn't get as much sleep as they had hoped. After spending a weekend with my folks and shopping in Minot we headed back to Williston Sunday. We had a great weekend with my folks. On Monday Turkey showed my parents around town. We took them to the coffee shop, the fabric store, and to see John the baker. It ended up being a great day. James had the day off so we all got spend the day together. Since it was Valentines Day we decided to go somewhere nice for dinner. We went to the golf course for dinner. We got the last reservation they had. It was a great dinner and a great place to spend my parents last night in town.