wllgetrich's blog: "The weekend!"

What a great weekend!! I got to relax a little bit and get my thought together. Kind of nice not having the kids for a change. The real fun started at night though. Saturday night we had the Christmas Train pull into our town. It was a 16 car train that has completely decorated with holiday lights. The first four cars they had light up saying the "Candian Pacific holiday train". The next two cars they had santa and his reindeer on and the next car was lite up and had christmas trees on. When the train stopped they opened the box car up and santa jumped out and greeted all the kids. My son went NUTS! Then they had a band (enis)in the box car that played holiday songs. We had around 1000 people standing in the streets dancing with their kids. While the band was playing we started to get those big snow flakes falling from the sky. So here I am in the middle of a street with a thousand people dancing with my son to a christmas train band. I wouldnt have traded it for the world. IT was a real special time!

So last night Emmerson woke up screaming. She must of had a bad dream I'm guessing. She was so upset she was hyper ventalating. Sarah ran in the room and tried to put her down again without any success. I came in later and took her in my arms and held her. Here I am in my boxers dancing around the room with a baby freezing my butt off. I must have done this for atleast ten minutes. Even if it was strange to be dancing like this it was something so special to me. Seeing my little girl snuggle her head into my arms trying to calm down. Her arms wrapped around me as tight was they could as to never let me go. I calmed her down and set her down. When I placed her back into her crib she looked at me and started to cry a little. I put my hand on her chest and smiled and she stopped. She almost smiled and knew that she was safe again. It might seem werid but this was just a moment for me. In a couple of years from now I wont be able to just pick her up and hold her like this. Dancing around the room and singing. She will be older but in my heart will always be my little girl. Love ya Emmerson!~DAD

So over the weekend I went with 15 other people for a crazy weekend up north. We stayed in a cabin on a lake and had over $1000 of alcohol. The first night staying up till the early morning hours drinking like old times playing drinking games and skinny dipping in the lake. Then I get old! Even though I went to bed so late (and was drunk) I was up early enough to go fishing and sit in a boat for 7 hours. Only caught a small perch to add to the misery. I come in, grab a beer and fall asleep on the couch watching the baseball game. I’m out of hours! When I awake I go down to the lake and jump in with the rest of them and drink several more beers. Water is 80 and perfect just to float in. After dinner and couple more beers I decide to head out and fish till dark while others sat and got piss drunk again. When I return I grabbed a beer and a bottle of water to sit by the fire and relax. Above me they play cups and are getting crazy. I retire to bed early only having a couple drinks of my last beer but finishing the water. Next morning I’m up at 5am and on the lake. Fish cast and I nail a northern. Well that was it, not another bite all morning. haha! Come back to the cabin and start to pack. Noticed I had my warm beer on the counter. Needing this bottle I tip it up and slam it. IT WAS HORRIBLE! Strawberry Wheat Beer warm in the morning. So am I getting old? Instead of getting piss drunk and having a headache and playing hair of the dog the next morning I would rather sit on a boat in the middle of a lake and catching nothing. I still had my share of alcohol starting with 6 beers and 5 Margaritas on Friday night. I guess I just went for the good buzz. Though the wildlife was amazing! I can see why the bald Eagle is our symbol. Such a graceful animal but feared by all other animals.