Today was get out of town day, and we woke up to a lot of lake effect snow coming off Lake Michigan. While it did make it for a kind of crumby travel day, it made for an excellent cross country skiing day. We packed our bags up, and then JT made us breakfast while I gathered up our skiing stuff and dusted it off – we had not used it in a couple of years. We had about an hour to ski before we had to …

OK, truth be known, Jennifer and I were a little bummed by the weather we rolled in to when we got to Michigan. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing more fun than family, especially at the holidays. But when you go north for Christmas, you want to see some SNOW! Besides I packed every bit of my cold weather clothes – fully expecting to wake up and go cross country skiing, do a quick costume change and then riding the sleds (that is what they call …