The past four years it has been our tradition to go out for sushi on Valentine's Day. But we have been to sushi so often of late that we wanted to do something different. So this year we decided to do our Valentine's date as a joint cooking together experience, something Katie is always pushing for. We made pizza and ice cream pie together with Scott making the meat and slicing up the vegetables for the pizza while Katie prepared the crust. For dessert Scott cut up the bananas and covered the chocolate crust of the pie, he also whipped the cream into a solid form while Katie put the ice cream and toppings on the pie after the crust was prepared. It took us a good 45 minutes together in the kitchen to get everything ready and then another 15 minutes of cooking the pizza's to make our dinner. It was a lot of fun and as we ate we watched a movie called Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day with Amy Adams and Francis McDormand, a really cute date movie that was a wonderful capper to a really fun evening of cooking together. It wasn't our traditional Valentine's date but it was really special.
We start a very busy run this week of relatives in town and trips of our own. Scott's father is in town for a week starting Sunday the 15th of February leaving on the 22nd. Then on Wednesday the 25th Scott heads to Miami to teach the Winter quarter seminar. Katie is flying up Friday for some shopping and get away time. We get back on March 2 and then on the 6th Scott's brother Kevin is coming for a visit. He will be here until the 11th and then on the 12th Katie's sisters arrive for their visit through the 23rd. We are planning lots of fun activities for all of our relatives while they are in town and looking forward ourselves to playing tourist. After everyone leaves we have a couple of weeks off before a trip back to Texas over Easter.
As some of you already know, we are currently weighing our options about where we will be and what we will be doing when our contracts expire this August with the college. We have to decide whether to renew the contracts (assuming the college offers to renew our contracts) and stay here another year or two or look for jobs back in the states starting in the fall and head back to Texas. There are a lot of factors to consider and we hope you keep a good thought for us as we decide what our next step will be.
