incredibly true adventures: we won! we won!

our girls' basketball team won their first game on saturday. we had to play two games and came very close to winning both of them. if only the girls weren't so focused on checking the score instead of getting back on defense. they continue to improve by leaps and bounds and i continue to be so very proud. way to go, fire!

aside from coaching two games, saturday was spent grocery shopping and chatting with our buddy, stan. he's a very sweet guy we met when we went thru his line a few times. i'm looking forward to us hanging out sometime soon. i also did some laundry saturday night - who knew there would be a line for the machines? don't people go out on sat night anymore? the rest of the night was spent relaxing and moving stuff around in the apartment. since our roommate moved out, we're now using the extra room as mn's studio. well, at least that's how i'm thinking it's going to go. she hasn't seen it yet.

speaking of mn, she called sat night to fill me in on the latest adventures. they've spent a lot of time at the beach and enjoying the sites and sounds of southern india. she even got to touch an indian elephant. (apparently there are different varieties of elephants and they aren't all like the ones we see in the circus.)

they had a 28-hour train trip to their final destination. she said the trip was somewhat grueling, but not as bad as some of their train travel has been. they'll be heading for delhi on monday for their flight to amsterdam and on to minneapolis. only 8 more days til she's home - hooray! i love you, mn!

here's a photo of the snow we had three weeks ago - probably won't seem like much to those of you in the midwest, but for us, it was a big deal.