A Great Weekend in Progress

Good news--Lauren was able to fly East, and I was able to get the weekend off from training (along with the rest of my class--no special treatment or anything). But, the bottom line is we're together, which was a pleasant surprise. At the start of the week we didn't think we'd be able to pull it off.

We're not doing much besides hanging out and enjoying one another's company, but as Lauren flew into RDU (Columbia, SC was too expensive) I got to show her around Duke a bit.

Now, as many of you know, Lauren isn't exactly the world's biggest Duke fan. So to deal with this, being the strong willed, no crap-taking Husband that I am, I laid down some ground rules. No more than 5 snide Duke-related comments per hour, and no more than 3 disgusted gestures/sounds/eye-rolls.

To Lauren's credit, she finished our 2 hour tour with a combined comment/look tally of 7--at least 2 or 3 of which were pretty funny, so no blaming her for those. Of course, I was being pretty generous--if Lauren was making one Duke Lacrosse joke, and that led to 2 or 3 more in rapid succession, before the topic of conversation shifted, I only counted that as one comment. And as the gods were smiling on Lauren this last day of June, Duke's lacrosse camp happened to be going on, so there was plenty of available fodder to work with.

I should also note that we sneaked into Cameron (the name of which we've assigned to the second of our two future-dogs) and saw Chris Collins, Wojo, DeMarcus, and Marty. Lauren even picked up an Iron Dukes brochure, and talked about how we should start giving money to become an entry level Iron Duke so that we'll be able to buy tickets down the road. Just goes to show, that jokes and "hatred" aside--my wife loves me and cares about me pretty darn much. I've picked a winner, no 2 ways about it.

OK everyone, time to enjoy one last night w/ my wife. Talk to y'all soon.