We've been a little sparse on the posts in recent months. Since Charlie's parents came up in late January, we both got pretty busy at work: Katie's with the Toys-R-Us annual report, and Charlie with testing the 2012 version of KPMG's audit tool. This is your typical winter for us bean counters! But we've both, for the most part, enjoyed what we're doing at work - so we can't complain too much.
We have done some fun things. We've visited our friends Brian and Adrienne - and their newest family member, baby Charlotte - a couple of times. Adrienne gives Katie great advice on getting ready for our baby, and even lent Katie some maternity clothes. Brian and Charlie, well... they still mostly talk about sports.
We watched a bunch of Michigan basketball games on TV - they had the program's best regular season in quite a while, winning a share of the Big Ten basketball title after splitting games with rivals OSU and MSU. But they got bounced early from the NCAA tournament - by Miami's biggest rival, no less, the Ohio Bobcats. Charlie didn't handle that loss very well.
As the very mild winter has started to drift away, though, we've had a bit more free time. In the first Saturday of March, a couple of Charlie's buddies headed up to New Jersey for a tradition that he hadn't seen yet. Charlie's fraternity brothers Jon and Greg took the train up from Baltimore and met with Charlie and Mike in Hoboken, New Jersey. Greg is a doctor who is living in Baltimore for just a year before he heads back to Miami (FL) for a more permanent stay. We've been trying to get the 4 of us together in NYC (or Hoboken) as he and I are newer transplants to the area.
Mike has lived in Hoboken since graduating college, and the first Saturday in March has always been a holiday in Hoboken. They celebrate St. Patrick's Day a couple of weeks early - so this became the annual Hoboken Green Beer Day. In 2012, the parade was cancelled but the party was not! We met up a little before noon and picked up Fiore's famous "Beef and Mozz" sandwiches to serve as a "sponge" for the big day ahead.
The day was super nice for early March - sunny and temperature just under 60. We found a bar we liked near the train stop called Texas Arizona - strange to go to a place named after the Southwest when you're in Hoboken for an Irish event, but it was fun nonetheless.
We met up with some of Mike's friends and, well, basically drank some green beer, watched some basketball, plotted our golf outing for the fall, and ... drank some more green beer. At some point, North Carolina beat Duke, which was the joint bet we'd all made, so we took an advance on those winnings to ... drink more green beer! It was a lot of fun to hang out with Greg, Jon and Mike - seeing friends is fewer and farther in between as we get older!
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