Idaho!

It’s family holiday time. 
 I rolled into Idaho all keyed up about LARPing, which awesomely is the thing to do at birthday parties for your little sister in Idaho (It’s those people dressed as fantasy characters hitting each other with foam battle axes outside colleges) The LARPing sadly never got off the ground, I got a taste of the fantasy action when we built a gingerbread Harry Potter world out of candy, but despite my enthusiasm about beating on kids with rolled up newsprint and dressing up, the LARPing would have to wait for warmer day with more weapons. 
 The Birthday was fun though.  I was having flashbacks of my brief time at Moscow High School as I stood outside the car in my wonder woman costume blasting “I Am Sixteen Going on Seventeen” watching the kids not quite know what to make of me as Zoe’s friends burst out of the building with Zoe (head in a pillowcase) we shoved her in the trunk, piled the car full of teenagers, blasted to the park, killed a piñata, headed to the house, ate way too much candy, built a gingerbread world, had a pie fight and watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, crashed hard, went out to eat delicious food, and then marvelled at how totally disgusting it smells when you leave whipped cream in your hair. 
 Days were then punctuated by training at the U, setting up the most beautiful tree, going to “It’s a Wonderful Life” at the Kenworthy with hot cocoa and popcorn, and shooting the shit with the fam. 
 Now I’m in Boise, looking out the window at a bunch of snow, wondering if it will melt in time today for my 1:45 run of if I’ll got nuts like a gerbil on a treadmill at the Y.  It’s been coffee in bed, good food, laying on the carpet, trying on old cowboy boots, lots of snuggling and tonight we ski!