Happy New Year

Okay. New rule. For every "negative" blog entry, I need to write a positive entry. After a few comments and reviewing my recent blogs, I have been a little down. Things aren't really THAT bad.

We had a great New Years Eve and New Year. We had our first visitor from Springfield!!!! They came in from Savannah Saturday late afternoon. We invited our across the hall neighbors over and had a nice little spread of appetizers and spirits. The neighbors brought over the makings for martinis, so the apple-tinis were flowing. We had a lot of fun with that. (for all of you "Scrubs" fans - you know what I'm talking about). At 9:00 we headed to downtown Augusta for tapas, more martini's, and a lot of great conversation. The resturant served us a glass of champange with dinner. After that, we decided that none of us wanted to go to a bar for the ringing in of the new year, so we headed back to our apartment. Don't worry, we only live a few blocks from downtown, so we were walking the whole time. Things get a little confusing, but we did end up on the roof of our apartment. What a great view! Since our neighbors and us are the only two apartments on the third floor, we have a great secret roof top patio. We partied into the night (actually, I think 1:30 was the bedtime - we are all over 25).

The next morning we woke up (without a hangover, thankfully), and Christian used his mad-cooking skills to whip up omlettes, bacon and bagels. Very tasty! We got dressed and went out to show our guests Augusta. The weather was perfect! We went to the Riverwalk (boy, I can't wait to get our kayaks so we can enjoy the river more), drove through town and up to the headwaters. It was so beautiful up there. I love any body of water, so being this close is great. It'll help when it is a little warmer. After that, we went back to the apartment and said our good-byes. Later that afternoon Christian and I went to see Syriana. Good movie, but I have no idea what was going on.

All in all, the new year had a great start. We drove around Monday and found the neighborhood we want to live in. Hopefully we can find a decent priced house - what is up with the housing prices these days? I also hooked up my wireless to my laptop. That is awesome!!!!

The next couple of weekends will be spent running errands and getting ready for our trip. Fun times!