Recovery Week

Happy Belated Halloween!  We were exhausted after another whirlwind two days at Disneyland and just couldn't sum up the energy to do anything but stare into space last Sunday.  We had a great time and of course, Disney does it up right for the holidays.  We have Disney down to a science now and can easily get in 12-14 rides at peak season.  (We rock, I know ;) ).  This time though, it was so very not crowded that we didn't really need any of our skills so it was a little more relaxing then usual.

On Halloween night, only people with wrist bands get and they only sell about 1/3 of park capacity so it isn't too crazy.  There are 12 "treat trails" throughout the park and each trail has 4 stations that you stop, open your bag and candy is literally dumped by the handful into it.

We came home with 15, count them 15 pounds of candy.  Lordy.  We somehow managed to get it back in our suitcases and gave most of it to Rich's mom to take into work.

Nothing out of the ordinary for our week.  Softball on Tuesday and Thursday.  I took Jordan to vote on Tuesday.  It was a last minute decision because I wanted her to see the whole process so I ended up with a provisional ballot.  The poll workers were great with her, explaining how everything worked and she actually seemed interested!

Saturday was the final softball game of the less than stellar fall season.  The girls didn't win a game all season but there was definite improvement with all of them, so I guess that's good......
Rich ended up pitching to the girls during the game.  Turns out, he is a good softball pitcher and struck a whole bunch of our girls out.  It did make the game go nice and fast which is always a blessing.
Saturday night, Rich and I headed out for a date night with some friends while Jordan hung back with favorite babysitter.  Our dinner was pretty bad and we ended up being comped for part of it and the show we went to see was just OK.  At least the company was good!

Ginger and I are officially Puppy School drop outs.  I just didn't have it in me anymore to drag our butts to class once a week and come home absolutely exhausted and a little disheartened by how crazy our monkey seems.  So now, we are just doing stuff on our own and it is so much easier.  This morning, Jordan and I took Ginger to a new park to do some exploring and "manners work"  We are slowly but surely making progress and maybe some day, she can make her public debut.  Deep sigh.....

After that morning adventure, I met an old friend for brunch and finally, finally was able to try a cronut.  What is a cronut you ask?  It is a craze that has been sweeping the nation- a doughnut made from croissant dough.   Mine was chocolate caramel.  Yes, it is as good as it sounds and yes, I ate a whole one.  After eating all of my biscuits and gravy.  It was not a stellar day nutritionally but it was damn tasty.
We had Rich's parents over for dinner and had a really fun evening.  We are now gearing up for another week of the grind.  Jordan gets tomorrow off- lucky girl

Hope everyone has a great week!