Spring is Here!

Well, today is supposed to get to 80 degrees. Yep, 80. It's a new record for this area... The old record was 73 degrees, so that's kinda getting blown out of the water! Oh, and just like 4 days ago the high was 30-something degrees and we had snow last week, so this weather is INSANE. I think the planet is officially broken.

Guinness had his check-up for his back on Monday night, and he was cleared to resume normal activities!!  We just can't do too much too fast, so yesterday we took him for a small walk. I'll probably take him for a slightly longer and more strenuous walk today, and we'll build-up to his normal activity level. He sure did give us a scare, but he seems healthy and happy now.

This past weekend we went to a beer festival in Philly!  It was the Philly Craft Beer Festival, and it was located in the Navy Yard area of Philly. We met up with a few of McGee's friends down there, and had a great time tasting lots of good craft beers!

Here's McGee and a few of his friends receiving their beer tastings at one of the breweries.

Here's my tasting glass! And it was pretty chilly that day (which is why I'm wearing gloves) which is why it's SO crazy that it's getting to 80 degrees today! 

And I thought I'd take this time to  let you know about a few trips we have planned for this year! 

Next month (for my bday weekend) we're heading up to NYC! We're going to head up early Saturday morning (the train is pretty quick!), and then we're going to take a water taxi around The Statue of Liberty, then go see the 9/11 Memorial, and then in the evening we're going to see Wicked on Broadway!  I'm SO excited. I've been wanting to see Wicked for YEARS, and I'm so excited to see it. We got a hotel right in Times Square for Saturday night, and then on Sunday we're going to spend some time wandering around Central Park before catching our 3pm train back home!  It should be a really lovely weekend. 

 And in May we're taking a long weekend trip to Vegas!  We're only going for 3 days, and it should be awesome. We're going to see a Cirque du Soleil show, and we're also going to see Lionel Richie sing his hits!  OH, and we decided that since we're going to be so close to one of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants, we want to eat at his restaurant and try his famous Beef Wellington.

And our biggest trip together this year is going to be a trip to Colorado. We're going to go camping in Rocky Mountain National Park for a few nights and do some fun hikes there, and we're also going to check out Denver and Boulder, and something I'm really excited about is that we're going to stay at The Stanley Hotel! It's the hotel that inspired Stephen King to write The Shining and it's supposed to be extremely haunted, but aside from all of that it's just a really beautiful hotel in a really amazing location (it's right outside Rocky Mountain National Park!).

Rocky Mountain National Park!! 

Here's The Stanley Hotel!