Happy Birthday to Me!

 My birthday week has been a good one.  One half teens, one half twenties and an all around good week.  In the waning minutes of my teenage years I found myself wanting to do something involving poor judgement and lack of foresight.  When else in my life will I be able to make bad decisions and just blame it on the age range I fall into?  When you're a teenager, people expect you to mess up.  When you're 20, you know better.  Unfortunately the worst judgement I could muster was kicking a football over the fence on accident.  Then I felt bad about it so I went and brought it back.  And just like that my teenage years were over and I have now moved on the the roaring 20's.   I think this is the decade where you're supposed to figure your life out. Although the teens was the decade where I was supposed to reach 5' 8", so we can't hold on to expectations too much.  I definitely feel younger and less mature than what I always perceived 20 year olds to be when I was little.  I remember visiting Justin at UNL when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade and thinking how old 20 was and what I would be like when I was 20.   Turns out bathroom jokes are still funny, I'm still extremely ticklish, and I still like to play outside.  I'm not in a hurry for those to change.  So goodbye 13 through 19, you've treated me well and your fun will be tough to beat. Hopefully the 20's will give you a run for your money.  Especially since you had none haha. I crack myself up.

Speaking of playing outside, we are planning to go to the Mount Cook area in about 3.5 hours.  Mt. Cook, or Aoraki as it's named in Maori, is the tallest mountain in NZ, reaching above 9,000 ft.  We'll only get to about half that elevation I think but we'll still run into snow about half way up our intended trail.  The overnight low at the hut will be in the upper twenties so I'll be wearing lots of layers to bed.  Should be a great weekend.  With that, I'm off to bed, finally.  Thanks for reading. Love to you all.