Space Needle

Space Needle
Originally uploaded by GailJ.

Jesper has returned from Seattle and is settling back into life in Coon Rapids. Mostly he sleeps and plays on the computer if he isn't at school.
He had a really good time in Seattle, especially since the weather was much warmer than it is here. He said is was in the 60's and sunny most of the week. Not at all Seattle like.
Apparently, Seattle reminds him of the west coast of Sweden, so he enjoyed that.
While he was enjoying his adventures in Seattle, I was home relaxing most of the time. I did travel to Iowa to see the Gophers play the Hawkeyes in basketball. It was an unbelievably long trip , 6 hours there, 7 back, to watch a 2 hour basketball game. Most of the time it is only a 4 hour drive, but the weather was not like Seattle. There was a huge snow storm and we saw many cars in the ditch. At least 50 and all of them in Iowa.

A Week of Nothing

Jesper was off to Seattle on Saturday morning. It looked like the weather was going to be much warmer in Seattle for a few day than in Minneapolis. He had no problems getting off on the plane and I didn't have any problems accompanying him to the gate. Something good has come out of the Larry Craig incident at the MSP airport. No one has any issues with you going with a minor to the gate.
On Sunday, I was off early to go with a group to the Gopher game in Iowa. It is about a 4 hour bus ride from Minneapolis. The weather in Minneapolis was cloudy and gray but that was about it. As soon as we got to Iowa, all that changed. They were having a really nice snow storm. There we cars in the ditch everywhere. It took an extra 2 hours to get to the game. We arrived just in time for tip off. Unfortunately, the Gophers were off to a bad start and the refs were even worse than usual. They didn't bother to call the blatant fouls, such as an Iowas player putting a Gopher in a headlock. They just watched her struggle! Gopher lost by 3 and we had a really long bus ride ahead of us. The storm had increased and I really thought we would be staying in Iowa, but our great bus driver got us back safe and sound. It only took 7 hours! Not bad! I am just glad that Jesper text me that he was enjoying the 60 degree sunshine in Seattle, while I was enjoying the Iowas blizzard!
Hopefully, I can update with pictures when Jesper comes home.

MORP

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Originally uploaded by GailJ.

Friday night was the Morp dance at school. Morp, is backward for Prom. This a new version of the Sadie Hawkins dance where the girls ask the boys. It used to be just a fun casual dance, but it seems to have gone a bit more dressy. Jesper was asked to go to the dance with Katie. They went out to dinner before the dance and then to the dance at school. They all got together for pictures at Evan's house. Everyone looked really nice and had a great time. Jesper even ran into Erin at the dance. Erin looked really nice.

Basketball

Jesper is playing basketball now that soccer is over. He is enjoying it, but they have yet to win a game.

A new quarter has started at school, so he is keeping pretty busy. Just a few weeks until he is off to tour Seattle.

Keep checking, hopefully we will have some nice adventures to tell you about!