My mama came, saw, ate, slept, hiked, and left...

This past weekend my mom came in from New Jersey and stayed with Megs and I for the weekend. It was the first time I have seen her since last December. That in itself is one of the hardest parts of living 3000 miles away. Unlike most of my contemporaries- I don’t live so far away because I don’t get along with my parents.

It was a truly awesome weekend despite the late start (her flight got in a 3:40AM on Friday morning rather than the 10:06PM Thursday – expected arrival time.) The three of us did a lot of everything and had an outstanding time all in all. I must pardon my appearance in any of these pictures as I had passed kidneys stones 5 days prior to their being taken- and I was sweating out some sort of something or other…