I can't believe 2010 is already over! Taylor and I had a blast visiting my family over the holidays. I figured I'd give you a quick recap with photos where possible.
We started our holiday break with dinner in the city on December 22 with Taylor's whole family including his brother Alex and his wife Hilary, his parents and his sister Allison. We went to a fun German place near our apartment. It was definitely an adventure!
On the 23rd, we opened Christmas presents in the morning with Taylor's family at their house. We got some great gifts including a new hat and gloves for me, some video games for Taylor, and a wine aerator for both of us. Thanks, guys!
After presents we left for the 10-hour drive to my house in Perrysburg. It was a really long drive, for some reason it took us almost 11 hours. Part of the problem was that we took a rather elongated break in beautiful Strongsville, OH and felt compelled to walk around the nice little lights display they have in downtown:
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On Christmas Eve, we traveled up to my cousins' house in Michigan for Christmas Eve with the Lucyk clan. It was fantastic and complete with Alaskan King Crab, delicious steak and plenty of shooting games (thanks, Brent and Miranda!).
Christmas day was VERY low key. So low key, in fact, that I have absolutely nothing to show for it. We opened presents and just hung out at home all day. Some highlights on the present front were a private ski lesson for Taylor and some fantastic new underwear, a North Face sweater, and a new necklace for me.
The day after Christmas (Sunday, the 26th), we drove up to Michigan again to have Christmas with my Grandma and Grandpa and the rest of my mom's side of the family. There were more shooting games:
And, of course, more gifts! Taylor and I even got a new laptop. It's a really small, super-portable one called a netbook. We're pumped!Whew....this was a busy week, I'm tired just writing it!
Ok, so THEN...on December 27th, we piled in the car at 8am with my parents, my brother, and his friend Tony to go up to northern Michigan for some skiing. Taylor had never been skiing before and it had been years since I was skiing, so we were pretty excited (and anxious).
We stopped on the way at an outdoors store and had a little fun. This is a 5XL:
My grandparents have a chalet up north, but when I was growing up, they had a much smaller one that's not far from their current place, so we went to check it out. Here's a photo: |
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The next day, was the day we actually went skiing. I'm happy to report that all parties had a good time and no one got hurt. In fact, Taylor picked it up really quickly and totally showed me up. Here are some photos of skiing:
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Getting ready in our thermal spandex
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Ready to go!
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This one's a video. I'm not sure if it will work. If it goes, you'll see Taylor in all black a little left of center.
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Would a real "Sno Pro" need their husband to keep them from falling down the hill with his pole?
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Me and Dad
We were pretty tired that night, so we were in bed by about 9pm. Then we got up early the next morning to take a quick ride on the snowmobiles before leaving. Taylor had never done this either. It was a week of firsts!
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All of us on the "sleds"
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On the trail
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Taylor driving, watch out!
After snowmobiling, we headed back down to Perrysburg with a stop in Plymouth, MI to visit my Grandpa and Nana for Christmas.
Ok, so we just finished the 29th. I'm actually not even sure what we did on the 30th, which is a good thing because every other day was so busy!
On the 31st, we relaxed most of the day and then got dressed up for dinner/New Year's Eve at night.
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Glamour Shot
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All of us at dinner
New Year's Eve was pretty low key. We went to a bar after dinner so Taryn could utilize her new-found status of LEGAL (my little sister is 21, crazy!). Then we headed back to our house and drank whiskey sours and played games until it was time to ring in 2011 :)
My family convinced Taylor and I to stay through New Year's Day and return, instead, on the 2nd, which actually worked out really well. We had lots of time to relax, EAT, and watch football on New Year's Day. We also went to the store and bought Taylor 2 new suits using some of his Christmas money, which was exciting!
We left at 6:30 in the morning on January 2nd and made great time back to New York, arriving at Taylor's parents' house at 3:30pm. Whew! What a trip!
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