Shake your groove thing yeah yeah!

As usual, we had another full weekend. Friday night we went see the Hornets beat the Denver Nuggets (Thanks Matt!) and after the game, Lori was tickled pink to get to sit in the same seat that Deion Sanders sat in earlier. Neither Matt or I had any idea she was such a fan of "Prime Time."

Saturday morning, we met the crew for breakfast at the Ho Ho Hole (Donut Hole in LaPlace). Lori and I have missed the last several gatherings due to races so it was great to see the gang again. We then hustled over to Commander's Palace for my sister's annual birthday lunch with her and my parents. After lunch we stopped over at my parents hotel room to open some gifts and they recommended we check out the ginger bread streetcar at Harrah's so we did.

We then wlaked over to the French Market to do some Christmas shopping. After 3 hours of shopping we grabbed a table at River's Edge Restaurant in Jackson Square to eat and watch the beginning of the Saints game. It was fun being in the city on game day with all the excitement going on with the Saints. Notice I said watch the "beginning" of the game. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately, considering the outcome of the game), a couple of months ago my mom got tickets for all of us to go see White Christmas at Le Petit that night. Before picking that date, none of us realized that the Saints game was on Saturday that week. Nor did we have any idea that they would be 13-0 at the time. It worked out well in the end though because we got to see a great show with my family and didn't actually have to sit through the game only to see them lose. Of course, I checked my phone for updates the entire time.

We were up bright and early Sunday morning to go run the Ole Man River Half Marathon at City Park. We both had to do our last long long run before the Disney Marathon in 3 weeks so we decided to just do this race and keep running after. We were a little concerned about how things would go because we had been walking all over the city the day before... not really what you want to do before a long run. We both had a pretty good run though... I ran 21 miles and Lori ran 22 miles. Disney here we come! Lori was thrilled that there were still some pancakes left from the post race party.

Next we hustled home to clean up before heading to Reserve to celebrate Christmas with Lori's dad's side of the familythat evening. We had a great time. There was one small incident though. Lori got her Paw Paw some pajamas and Saints hat for Christmas... appropriate gifts right? Well, half right... when he opened the Saints hat I though his head was going to explode. Apparently, he HATES the Saints! Everyone else seemed to know this but Lori and I so as you can imagine, the laughter was hysterical. I'm not sure he talked to Lori the rest of the night.

Monday, work. Monday night we went to the Celebration in the Oaks with Matt and his mom.

At one point, Matt got tired and needed to rest (he did a long run on Sunday too), but unfortunately we were in Storyland at the time so this was the tallest bench he could find.

Of course we had to ride the Carousel.

We also had to eat and while eating we sat down to enjoy some of the local entertainment. There was a group of dueling senior citizen tap dancers that kept us thoroughly entertained. Here's a short clip.

All in all, we had a wonderful weekend. Here's one last picture that was on my phone... it's 2 of our 3 munchkins, Hunter and MJ.