Freaky weather, family time and football!

I should probably start this post as my friend, Amanda, did by asking, "can you call yourself a blogger if you never update your blog?", but figure I'll just skip that and jump right in:-)

Last weekend, the husband, kiddo and I jumped into the car for a roadtrip to Lubbock, Texas...home of the Texas Tech Red Raiders! Since Brad and I both graduated from Tech, we are fortunately on the same page when it comes to these things and really enjoy our trips back to west Texas. The reason for this particular trip was to see Tech's spring game and to hang out with Brad's side of the family.

As the date of departure grew closer, the weather forecasts for here on the front range started sounding ominous with warnings of up to 2 feet of snow starting on Friday. Oddly enough, we didn't really relish the idea of extending an 8 1/2 hour due to snowy roads and so we decided to leave on Thursday morning. And so, we set off, feeling rather proud of ourselves for avoiding "unsavory driving conditions". Well, we DID miss driving on all of the snow (although there was still quite a bit on the ground when we got home Sunday), but ended up driving through special west Texas weather between Amarillo and Lubbock. Can you say hail, thunderstorms, flooding and tornado warnings covering the entire Panhandle? Just to give you an idea of what really crazy spring weather can look like:

FYI...this is not snow...it's hail!

For anyone who is wondering (as my friend Janice did) there are no lakes, rivers or even creeks in this water-covered area normally, just open fields.

After being stopped for 30 minutes on I27 so that they could remove the hail from the road, we finally made it to Lubbock after about 9-9 1/2 hours on the road. Crazy!

The rest of the weekend was far more pleasant than eventful. On Friday, Brad, Rusty and I headed to the Science Spectrum where we'd heard they had a "Monsters of the Deep" exhibit. Anyone who has or has had a 2 year old boy can understand why we had to check out the monsters:-)


Apparently, his life long dream is not being eaten by a shark;-)

After finishing up with the "monsters", we had lunch at one of Brad's favorite spots (??)...Der Wienerschnitzel because he presumably wanted to show Rusty the airplane. This was a big hit!

Brad's parents, and his brother Kip with his wife, Sarah and daughter, Kate, arrived that afternoon. We had a great time getting to visit with them and it was so much fun to see the schnitz and his cousin Kate finally get to play together. We had a great time visiting that night and then Saturday headed to Tech's spring game. The weather was beautiful and we had a great time!

We had a great time on our trip and can't wait to see the fam' again in July AND for Tech's football season to start in a mere 3+ months:-) GO TECH!