Long Weekend Hangover

Last weekend was a long weekend here, with Monday being a holiday for Martin Luther King Jr Day.

Saturday was a nice day outside, sunny and a few degrees above freezing, the warmest it had been for quite a while. As such we decided to take advantage of the "warm" weather and go for a walk. Deciding to go somewhere different we headed for a state park about an hour away from Stamford called Kettletown State Park. Once we arrived there we found it was a few degrees cooler there than it was at home, and it was a little windy. We pushed on anyway, but found the trails covered in a combination of ice, mud and snow. I tried taking some photos but almost slipped over, so we headed down one of the roads in the park. It led to the lake, which was partially iced over.

We walked out on some of the ice closer to the shore, which is where I took this photo from. Being on the ice was fun. I didn't think it was as slippery as the ice that was on the trails or as the ice you would find in a rink. Standing on the ice, never more than around 2 metres from the "shore" you could hear the ice melting and dripping in to the lake, and a couple of times I heard cracking noises, just luckily not from directly under my feet.

This photo gives you an idea of how thick the ice was, and how it had ledges from where some of the ice was melting back in to the water.

After about 30 minutes on the ice the sun went down behind a nearby hill, leaving it even colder on the ice on the lake. We started to head back to the car, but on the way I wanted to try for more photos where I had earlier slipped. Opting to warm up, Liz went to the car, telling me to be careful. In the process of snapping these photos I only slipped twice, and had to throw my body around very awkwardly on another occasion to avoid finding myself with wet clothes for the ride home. But it was worth it in the end, because I had fun getting these photos.

There were others, but to save space I posted my favorites.

Saturday night we just chilled out. The small stroll seemed to take it out of us now that we are in peak winter fitness.

Sunday we woke up and went over to Gail's house to watch a couple of movies.The first movie we watched was "Harry and the Hendersons". It had been so long since I saw that movie that I forgot that John Lithgow was in it. However, once I heard that the name of the hunter was "La Flore", I couldn't get Richie's vineyard out of my head, Chateau Verdaflore. Non-Australian's won't get it...

After Harry came Zoolander. Classic movie.

On Monday we woke up late and got a phone call that the TV stand we bought ourselves for Christmas (and ordered in November) was ready to pick up. We went and grabbed that and set everything up on it. The coffee table can now resume its normal function as a coffee table, and the ottoman is being set up in front of the single chair. The room will be different again, and in it's normal state, when the Christmas tree comes out, which might be in a week or so. The limbs are starting to droop...

After dinner we watched another movie, this time Back to the Future. I had forgotten so much of that movie and enjoyed watching it again.

Back to work today, we had to grab some groceries this evening. We grabbed some bacon, because to quote Liz "We haven't had bacon since Christmas!", and we really need to give the (bacon) press a workout.