Cathy in the Wright

CLEAR!

Looks like my blog flatlined. I'm not sure it's worth hauling out the defib paddles, but what the heck. I can always neglect it for another couple of weeks.

Yesterday I drove into Minneapolis to have lunch with an old high school pal. I don't get down into her neck of the woods very often. I got to view the Hiawatha Light Rail for the first time. Pretty neat. I felt a pang of nostalgia; it reminded me of living in Boston when my favorite past time used to be hopping on the "T" and heading downtown to the Aquarium for an afternoon. Of course, hopping on public transportation is fun if you're single and have nothing too pressing to do. Wouldn't be my first choice of Point A-Point B with two kids and four bags of groceries.

Since I was a little early for lunch, I drove down Hiawatha Ave for a while to check out the neighborhood. I grinned when I saw the Burger King at Hiawatha and 46th. Their sign out front announced "Military Personnel 20% Off." Cool. Especially since I'd be willing to bet that 75% of the cars that go through their drive-thru have sported Wellstone! or Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers at one time or another.

Saturday we were all up in Alexandria, MN for the boys' first Tae Kwon Do tournament. Both boys seemed to enjoy the meet, but I'd be hard pressed to say that they didn't enjoy staying at the hotel and swimming in the pool with some of their fellow yellow belts even more. The highlight: The Governor brought home a silver medal for board-breaking in his division. (Little Ninjas). He held up is medal and took a victory stroll through the middle of the gym, almost walking into a sparring match. Fortunately, The VP reached him before he got his head round-housed into next week.

And speaking of The Gov, he is waltzing around here right now in his underwear telling me to check out his little white heinie.

Suddenly, your Monday at the office isn't seeming quite so bad, is it?

Posted by Cathy at March 19, 2007 11:57 AM