This week is one of those weird ones. Our town runs around the Penn State academic calendar. Fall semester is a flurry of football games. Spring semester is neatly divided into pre-THON, THON, State Patty’s Day, Spring Break, and finals week. Unfortunately for those students who have yet to matriculate, the local school district powers that be opted to chop off half of the spring break, which means that families have only a few days to run to warmer climes, just enough time to get sunburned before coming back to a blustery Happy Valley, where it was a sunny 32 degrees today.
Our fam is staying put this break. We’ve spent many spring breaks in the Dominican Republic, and would have gone again, but the bank statement says that travel options are pretty limited for the time being. And the thought of writing another “Hey, would you give me some money so that I can go somewhere and do something missionary-like” just didn’t feel right. (There’s an outside chance that I’ll be heading to the DR to do some recon for a church plant and connect with some folks we partner with, but it’s not a sure thing yet.)
But don’t get me wrong–Team Sublett is living the dream this Spring Break. We’ve hiked to the top of Mount Nittany, slept in and ate a late breakfast, and already logged about 7 games of Settlers of Catan. Kim still crushes us like it’s her job, but I managed to sneak away with a win yesterday. We introduced Phase 10 and Skipbo to the kids this afternoon. Isaac liked them, but not as much as he likes Uno. He pounded me and Annabelle in a couple of games after supper. It’s pretty much Game-Central around the Sublett house. If you’re bored over break you should seriously come over!
We really had a good time hiking Saturday. We didn’t get as early a start as I thought we would (go figure…) so it was getting a little chilly by the time we were headed down. It was very windy at the edges of the top, and Charlie didn’t enjoy the wind in his face. We overstayed our welcome by about 25 minutes as far as Charlie was concerned, and he made it pretty clear that he was ready to be done before we got back to the van. But I think we’ll try it again. There are a lot of great places to hike around Happy Valley. If you know of any good loops, let me know. We’re probably good for about 5 miles if we start early in the day.
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kim · March 6, 2012 at 1:19 pm
We were missing Lilly on our hike!! 🙁
She might have been okay with that? 🙂