Weekend @ Luther

This weekend I went down to Decorah, IA to my alma mater, Luther College, with my mom and my aunt to see the Juletide Christmas concert. This is a yearly tradition (usually) for us to make the trip down to Decorah to partake in the following activities:

1. Shop at the cute shops on main street in Decorah

2. Eat at Mabes Pizza (Canadian bacon & sauerkraut pizza! Yum!)

3. Visit the college book shop so Jen can get her Luther apparel updated for the year

4. Check out the new building updates on campus

5. Go to Marty's coffee shop and have a coffee

6. Realize how frickin' old I'm getting

7. Go to the concert & listen to pretty Xmas music

It was cold this year, as usual, as we were walking around downtown. Brrr! The pizza was fabulous, as usual. The concert was fairly good, we've definitely seen better performances, but it was fun. They were filming this concert for the airing on TV, so was fun to watch the cameramen and the big boom trying to get all the good shots of the choirs and orchestra. Mom almost got us kicked out, when she was trying to get some mints from her purse (quietly) and couldn't do it. She started giggling and I thought she was gonna lose it. Luckily she simmered down and we didn't get the boot.

After the concert we drove up to Preston to our hotel, which was a bit of a hole. We had a little party going on next door that we had to call to the front desk about, but that simmered down eventually.

On our way back home, we stopped up in Rochester and did a little bit of Xmas shopping before heading home. At least I got a few things purchased and off my lists - which will be helpful in the coming weeks here.