Prior to our trip, we spent hours planning a schedule of who we would see and when in order to figure out when we'd be able to do the things we wanted and see the people we wanted and to help us spend a fair amount of time with both sets of our parents. It didn't work out as well as we'd hoped, since some people who we had hoped to see were at work during the day on Monday and Tuesday. Still, we were able to see everyone and eat and do everything we'd wanted to. We ended up seeing both sets of our parents equally and for about 4 hours more than we'd planned.

We were able to spend the night with several different people, which was nice because we didn't get tired of any one person and we were able to spend more time with some people, like our grandmothers and Lesley's sister. We were able to leave our suitcase at Lesley's parents' house and just brought our backpack and duffel bag with us each night. It wasn't bad, but became a little bit of a hassle.

We especially enjoyed eating out at various places and spending quality time with our family and friends. Lesley's parents took us out to a hockey game. We looked at Christmas lights in Dallas with my parents. We went with our friends to see a Beatles cover band perform.

It was great to see everyone again and do some fun things. We don't have any immediate plans to come back, so I'm glad we were able to do so much this week.