Baby It's Cold Out!!

Minus 11 degrees right now in Chi-Town without the wind chill, Brrrrr. (Note to Becca Saw, that would be -24 Celsius, not that you care since it is 50 degrees in Barcelona, Spain right now as you return from another evening of carousing with the locals!!) My theory is that once it's 15 degrees or so, it doesn't really make a difference how cold it gets, since only a fool does anything outdoors!! And the nice thing about this temperature is that it will make Saturday's 25 degrees seem positively balmy.
Congrats to JJ Saw, the Daily Herald, Lake County, IL girls basketball player of the week!! Picture in the paper and all, we are proud of her. Big game versus cross town rival Libertyville this Saturday, Good Luck Mustangs!
The Sawchuk's were seriously considering getting a new pup this week, after Dan received an email (with a picture and all) from a friend about some mixed labs/border collies that were found abandoned. After responding that we were interested, found out that it was a widespread email hoax and about 100 people had received the info, with many responding to take a pup. May have to visit a legitimate shelter soon, to see what we can rescue....Woof.

Something's in the air

Actually somebody's in the air, namely Becca. After much anxiety over the past few days due to 1) Becca's personal need to fit her entire wardrobe into two suitcases (50 pds or less each) and 2) Julie's expected "mom" moments over her daughter being far away for the next 4 1/2 months Becca is finally in the air on her way to Barcelona. Not without it's intial challenges though as her long standing flight to Madrid was cancelled completely due to Madrid airport's inability to handle 2 inches of snow today. With great assistance from Julie at the airport, Becca was rescheduled on a flight to London with a connector to Barcelona and left at 530 PM CST. At this moment she is 3500 miles from home and due to land in London in 1 hour. When we wake up Saturday morn Becca will already be using her Spanish language skills at a quaint Barcelonian tapas bar (or so I imagine.!)