Lots of Wine: Eggs and trips!

I’m way behind on blogging! Easter was a few weekends ago. It was a bit bittersweet because we have had our friends go to our neighborhood Easter egg hunt with us for the past 3 years. They moved away last July so this year we planned on going solo, but my parents and my friend April came up to go with us so that helped me not be as sad. That and the fact that Lola and I were going to visit them a week later (more on that below). It rained last year but thankfully the rain held off this year. I thought Luca was going to be terrified of the Easter Bunny. I guess I just assumed this because she hated Santa a few months ago. But it was the complete opposite...she kept wanting the Easter Bunny to hold her and she kept running back to him (or her). We had to keep going to get her, since other kids were trying to get their pictures taken with him. We also had an egg hunt at our house on Easter morning. Lola loved it…Luca was a little slow collecting eggs but she still had a good time.

Lola and I took a trip to visit her friend Julia, and my friend (Julia’s mom) Elizabeth last weekend in Memphis. I was just there in September for a girl’s trip, so I had seen them then, but Lola hadn't seen them since they moved last July. We were supposed to arrive on Thursday evening at 6:15pm and leave Sunday at 2pm. Perfect trip time – 3 nights and almost 3 days. On Thursday morning just before 11am, I got an e-mail and phone call from Delta saying my flight had been cancelled! Apparently the crazy snow and ice weather in Minneapolis had messed up flights all over the US, but I wasn’t expecting my flight to actually get cancelled. After an hour on the phone with Delta, I booked a flight that same evening but it went through Atlanta and didn't get into Memphis until 10:20pm. Kind of a bummer, and Atlanta is not exactly on the way to Memphis, but whatever… Then my dad calls not even 30 minutes later and says that Atlanta is going to get pounded with Thunderstorms right around the time we are supposed to land there. So after some weather channel watching, I decide that it would be smart to re-book for Friday morning. The problem with Friday morning though is that the flight is at 6:15am. It is direct though, but still…6:15am flight with a 4-year old. Turns out I was smart to re-book because the Thursday night flights were delayed and the plane didn’t get into Memphis until almost 12:30am. So Friday morning, I get up at 4am and I get Lola up at 4:15am. We get to the airport at 5:20am, look at the board, and our flight is delayed over an hour already! I never got a notification from Delta either. If I would have received something, we would have hung out at home for a little while longer. Fast forward, we finally arrive mid-morning. We had a great time overall! We went to the zoo, the park, went for a run on the trail, and we played in the back yard. The weather couldn't have been more perfect – 70’s the whole time. Elizabeth and I went out to dinner on Friday night by ourselves which was a nice treat.