We're in Colorado with some of Mark's best friends for a new year's mini break. It's been very relaxing - it's a great group of people that went to college at DePaw with Mark. We've spent our time napping, eating, playing cards, drinking, playing darts (I will be spackling the area around our host's dart board where I hit the wall many times...) playing with baby Ben and watching football. Tomorrow we ski.

I'm thrilled that we've actually been able to relax while here, given all that has to be done at home. While we have tried to get a lot done at home since we got back from Switzerland, we haven't crossed much off the 'list'.

We did have a rip-roaring holiday party after which 10 of our closest friends stayed overnight and helped us put a dent in the left overs and bottles of champange the following morning. I got some amazing footage of said guests participating in the midnight sing along "sound of music". I have not laughed that much in a very long time.

We are headed home from Colorado tomorrow night on the red eye and will have a few days to work on getting house/packing/moving/selling/etc... projects done before Mark heads back to Zurich on the 6th. Then the reality of this new year/life will quickly follow.