We met up with Robert and Shawna Jack and their family for lunch at Chili's in the Dimond Center, an impressive, multi-level mall. Among the highlights was watching the pee-wee hockey team go through its "falling down and standing up" training at the indoor ice rink. Shawna graciously offered to let our boys play with her children while Janelle and I went on our Costco run.
The only real downsides of the trip were my tailbone and my digestive tract, both of which were causing me pain today. In an odd coincidence, I came out of a bathroom stall in Costco only to hear "Hey, Mr. Marks!" as I made my way to the sink. One of my students happened to be next in line for the stall I had just come from in a store three hours away from where we normally see each other. ... Yet I have trouble just finding Janelle again when we separate while shopping.
We had a great time with the Jack's today (although Rob had to work) and ended up going to fewer stores and leaving Anchorage later than we originally planned so we could spend more time with them. It was a rainy drive in and a dark drive back, but I feel lit up within from the trip.