St. Patty in the house!

We had a good weekend. We froze our butts off at the St. Patty's day parade but it was still fun. We met up with a few different friends and their kids. I mostly just like to watch the kids be enthralled by the floats and that's what I think is the best part of parades.
I figured since I rarely remember to take my camera to anything I would post the pictures.

I like it when my worlds meet. I have different friends that I know from different places and a lot of them don't really know each other but I really like it when my worlds can collide and I can spend time with my friends from different places all at one time.
The parade was fun. Cold but fun. We could only handle so much though before we decided to go to a pub and get some lunch. I guess we were naive in thinking that since we left before the parade was half over the pubs wouldn't be that packed. We thought our little strategy was quite smart but apparently half of the other freezing people down on Market Street had the same idea. We waited at the pub for awhile then some really nice people who were sitting at a huge table snuggled up together and gave us not only half of their table but a bucket of beer too! Nice people really do exist!

The rest of our weekend was pretty blah. We were supposed to meet some friends at another pub for dinner but we were too tired from our hiking excursion the night before (that ones too long of a story to get into) so we decided to just go home for awhile and then go over to Dale & Missy's too hang out. I love that our best friends live so close to us. It's part of the reason that we moved over here to Dupo - that and the fact that you could get a great house for a fraction of the price that you could get it for in St. Louis. Really though, we love living so close to these guys. Our life would be so boring if they weren't in it on a daily basis. These are two friends I could never imagine my life without. I'm glad we all ended up moving our lives from Texas together and I hope that they will always be a part of our lives like they are now. I couldn't imagine not seeing those beautiful girls of theirs grow up, it would simply be heartbreaking to me. I know that life changes and people move but I just pray that somehow it would always work out so that we could live somewhat close to these guys. For now though I'm not taking for granted any of the time that I have with us all living so close.


Speaking of living and location. Steve has had this weird desire to move to Austin, TX. I'm not sure why. He actually has never even been there but every few months he somehow brings up in conversation that he eventually wants to move there some day. I actually really like Austin and think it's a very cool city so I can't say that I'm opposed to moving there. I also have some great friends that live there so that would make it nice as well. Honestly I don't see us moving for quite awhile but I find it funny that Steve keeps bringing it up.
We'll see what happens. Our life is in Gods hands so we're open to whatever he wants. Besides Steve's folks and Dale & Missy we really don't have a whole lot keeping us here in St. Louis anyway. Not that our other friends are chopped liver or anything but they are people that we now survive on a daily basis without seeing. They would be greatly missed but life goes on and there's always visits.
Anyway....that's all on a sidenote. Back to the weekend - it was fun and way too short. I always feel a little depressed on Sunday nights when I realize that Monday morning I have to wake up and that work has to happen again. It's not fun people!
It is however life, and that's how it works.
Is it bad that at the young age of 27 I'm already REALLY looking forward to retirement?