30 Years

       It's our wedding anniversary today:  30 years...seems like yesterday.  Who knew time would pass so quickly?  Who knew we would still be married after 30 years???  (Jeff says I have to quit saying that as he swears, "We ALL knew you would be married 30 years and longer.)  Okay, so I am kidding around a little about that...but it doesn't seem like that amount of time could really have passed. 

      We had a great weekend, and I guess we are going to shoot for 31 years next year.  (Important not to take it for granted, you know.)  It's an easy life...married to the world's most perfect husband and all...I have no idea why he is still sticking around, but I know that I love him dearly for it.

      And...just where did we go on the surprise anniversary weekend?  Where would you guess?  Nothing terribly fancy, but a lot of fun for us:  our beloved Bloomington...how sweet was this idea?         We had a great time just wandering hither and yon, checking out all our old favorites from when we were at IU together and adding some new ones.  Returning to the scene of the crime as it were:  where it all began and where we fell in love, ahhhhh.... 

      No plan involved (so this probably counts for that New Year's Resolution list whereby I was to just show up somewhere sometime without any organized plan of action, right?).  

      Stayed at the Union, had a nice suite with the view of Beck Chapel and the little cemetery (I know, a little morbid, but I have always liked the historical bits of cemeteries, so I love that suite, pictured here with the window open.)

        We strolled around campus and drove about town to see what had changed (a lot, but also much is the same).  We have been, obviously, to Bloomington a lot in the last 30 years, but we really hadn't ever just driven by old places we had lived, etc., with the express intention of remembering those times, etc.

        We spent Saturday afternoon in the IU art museum. (Bet you are shocked to hear that, right?  No?  Didn't think so.)  

   We ate at The Scholar's Inn and Bakehouse (no photo); Lennie's, a brew pub that has wonderful French Onion Soup and is very close to the IU swimming pool, to be noted for certain return in July for swim meet fare;

The Limestone Grille (pictured here on the outside and with Mark sitting by the limestone wall on the inside); and Farm, which is a new restaurant, just half a block from the square, being touted this month in the The Indianapolis Monthly, so we decided to check it out for breakfast on Sunday. 

      All were very nice, and you can check them out at these sites:

http://www.scholarsinn.com/BtownBakehouse/index.html and http://www.limestonegrille.com/ and http://bbc.bloomington.com/ and http://www.farm-bloomington.com/ if you want to know more, and most of you probably do as you are always saying, "Where'd you eat, was it good, would you go back?"

       Last photo is of Meggie and Matt at Meggie's graduation party yesterday...Meggie heading off to Northwestern for college in the fall, but Maria will still be around for two more years.  

      Back into the swim of things this morning...practices are at 6:00 a.m. in the summer, so we get to SLEEP IN!  My summer suddenly looks like this...6:00 a.m. drop Matt off; 7:15 take Alex to summer school (he does P.E. in the summer as it is more fun and he can take an extra class then during the school year, etc.); pick up Matt from swim practice at 8:30; pick up Alex at 11:30 from school; fix lunch; take Matt back to CHS for afternoon practice at 2:00; pick up Matt from practice at 5:00; cook dinner; no doubt trips to various things in the "between swim sessions" and evening and/or the golf course.  Hmmm...that isn't quite what I had in mind...all this driving to and fro...however, last summer for that as they can drive next summer! 

      A lovely day here today, just as beautiful as it was the day we were married.  Yep, who knew that time would go so quickly...30 years, and I am still only 23!