Random thing but a few weekends ago we built our cat a cat tree/perch. He's a long cat and none of the commercially available cat trees are long enough so we decided to build him one. We had left over 2X4s and plywood from our desk project and then we went out and bought sisal rope and carpet. We found a good deal on leftover carpet piece (much more than we needed too) from Lowe's and it matches our existing carpet really closely:
And for whatever reason our cat adopted this blanket one day so we put it there for him to lay on:
And then the fact that he likes to lay up against things had my putting the dark grey blanket he had previously been laying up against by it:
So this past Friday was our 5th year wedding anniversary.
Aaron decided to take the day off though we didn't really do anything too special. He went out to get breakfast quickly and came home with this:
I was seriously wondering what was taking him so long...oh he's a sly one that's for sure lol. It's 2 different hand-picked bouquets put together.
We ended up going out to dinner and then somewhat nearby we went to get dessert and ate that outside. It was a lovely evening after the storms had passed-not too cool-not too warm and the high earlier in the day was 80 (which is higher than average for this time of year) though the storms cooled it down to 60s/70s. But oh the Saturday and Sunday was just ridiculous. Very cold with another hard freeze and a dusting of snow on Sunday. I'm so ready for spring. I'm also ready for the backyard to green up with the trees but with the much colder than average temps sticking around they said it will delay greening up. I think our plants will be ok since they are several years old at this point. Hopefully they still bloom ok. The grass is greening up but still struggling.
So our anniversary was a strange weather day here in Kansas. I took these screenshots:
So I live in the NE part of KS but luckily we didn't have any hail. Down south from us however did have some good sized hail.
So Aaron had an idea for a weekend trip within driving distance to celebrate our anniversary and my birthday (as it's the dirty 30 this year
) but that snowballed into a week's trip to a beach and to incorporate Aaron's birthday into it (he's a year younger than me though). We looked all over in FL including the Keys but couldn't find the type of beach we prefer which is more tropical. Flights to Hawaii were too expensive (average of $1600-$1800 for 2 people RT) but the lodging would have been just over $1,000 for a week. Well we then switched to the Caribbean (the Bahamas, Grand Cayman, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica, etc) and we were trying to fly on SWA RR pts too and a sale was going on until 4/19. Well from our airport the Grand Cayman is seasonal and Turks and Caicos was too--funny thing with Turks and Caicos is we could get there but flights coming back home wouldn't work due to the flight that goes to FLL and the flight that goes from FLL back home..maybe eventually we'll get to Turks and Caicos.
Well eventually we settled..well really Aaron really wanted it..on Jamaica
. Flights were more expensive for Jamaica than Nassau but accommodations were more expensive in Nassau. The flights cost a bit over $1,000 RT for 2 people in value though we used pts which was over 50,000--more than we wanted but we had more than enough points (nearly 300,000 before we booked the flights). We do however have to pay over $200 (and you can't use pts for that) in airport fees and taxes between the flight getting down there and coming back which sucks. But we selected a place in Negril for something like $825 for 7 days taxes and fees included. Should be a fun trip for sure and not too too expensive at least in relativity. Of course Aaron keeps wanting to go back to Vegas eventually (we went this past October). I told him well we could go to Vegas instead of the beach....but the beach is just calling us
. Maybe being in the middle of the country makes us that way
.
Anyways sorry for the looonngg update
If anyone wants a good laugh about weather google weatherman rants (from Grand Rapids). It's hilarius and sadly sooooo true!!
...(again, I kid! 
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Interesting that our join dates are so close together too! Do you remember what brought you? For me it was planning our first trip to WDW - I somehow managed to subscribe to Tourguide Mike (anybody remember that?) and found the DIS from there.
. DD24 and I have decided to go to WDW in August, so now I am getting up at the crack of dawn every Monday to see if we can score Free Dining!
. Glad you appeared to have ended up well enough and a heartwarming ending for sure 
I'd be downright cranky if I wasn't leaving for sunny SoCal on Wednesday. 
drinking some rum punch 
look at you bringing it all back to Disney 
