The trip was fine.  Nothing really came together for us and in
fact we had a terrible time trying to get out of town.  First we
had to caulk the sink which meant I had to go to the hardware store. 
Then I had to go BACK to the hardware store and get the right
caulk.  Then as we were leaving it became clear that the shock
absorbers on the front of the van had suddenly gone south on us. 
I just had them and the struts replaced in November so I was upset that
they would already be bad.  Long-story-short:  the place that
had installed them was equally suprised and after looking at them
agreed to repair them for free.

damn straight.

Newburyport was very pretty in the snow.  It also shuts down at
5pm and because we were so late getting out of town we didn’t have much
of an opportunity to poke around.  We had a nice mexican diiner.

This morning we went to Portsmouth, NH — we’ve heard good things about
it but partially because Liz wasn’t feeling well and partially beause
of the snow, 25 degree weather and the 30mph winds it didn’t work out
so well.  We got back on the road to come home and decided to do
some shopping at the Burlington mall — we don’t go there much and
there are some nicer stores there that we don’t normally bring the kids
to.

While Liz was perusing make-up in Sephora,
I bumped in to an old girlfriend from college.  I haven’t seen her
since about 1993 but we didn’t part part on bad terms at the
time.  It was a little awkward but not too bad.  She had a
very cute 2-month old baby named Freddy.

Now I have to start looking forward to work again.  Yippee.

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