From Kayaks to Sandbags

My trip to St. Croix was LOVELY!!! I can not wait until my pictures are developed so I can post them for your viewing pleasure. Hopefully they will make your day better because of their beauty even though you will become insanely jealous of me for having spent a week and a half in a postcard. I kid you not, every beach we were at was perfect. They each had a personality of their own. It was hard coming back to the frozen tundra of ND!

Thankfully, the temperature was up from the pathetic 11 degrees it was when I left. I came home to pouring rain and a temperature of 55. My thankfulness for not having to readjust to below freezing temps quickly dissipated as I learned that the quickly rising temperatures of the last few days had caused the snow to melt unseasonably quickly, and, combined with the rain, had caused the Red River to rise and record fast speeds. Ugg.

And so, practically as soon as I returned, we had to deal with sandbags and dikes and leaking drains.

So much for the stress-free vacation :)