A little pirate treasure and Christmas spirt

This past weekend was a bit crazy! Went to lots of parties to celebrate the Christmas season with great friends, did some last minute wrapping, etc. And, Dustin and I started celebrating Christmas a little early on Sunday. He had this running story that began mid-last week that included our pirate alter egos and supposed heritage stemming from Greenbeard. Well, Greenbeard scattered clues that would lead to his precious "Christmas spirits and treasure" all thorugh MN and it was prophesized (so the story goes) that Lovebug (my pet name) would be the one to recover it someday.

So Sunday morning I began my adventure to search for my descended treasure by a "treasure map" that led to a starting destination to receive another clue (another piece of a burnt/worn road map) that led to yet another clue, and so on and so on.

The pirate heritage is spread all throughout the Twin Cities, and it turned out that all Dustin's and my closest friends are descendents of Greenbeard as well. Who knew?

Two-and-a-half hours later I found myself wandering the woods of Sucker Park, following a green trail left by Greenbeard (designed by Dustin) which led to an X in the snow. Laughing, and digging with my frozen, bare hands I found the Pirat box (from Pirat rum) gifted to Dustin last year which beheld the Christmas spirits (champaign & two glasses) and a tiny box holding Greenbeard's dearest treaure -- MY RING!

The Captain popped out of the cattails in time to get on a knee before his hysterical Pirate Queen to propose and say many lovely things that were filmed by his brother still hidden.

There are many more details to my adventure that would exhaust too many here, but if you're close I'd like to sip over some bubbly and share more about the exciting tale!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Tempting children

So cute! A friend of mine shared this video with me last week and I just think it's great. Hope you do too!


Oh, The Temptation from Steve V on Vimeo.

It's Friday and time to party!

Thank heavens my finals are over, and I had my last classes for the semester this week. This weekend is packed with Christmas parties and get togethers!

Tonight: my boyfriend and I are the entertainment for some family friends, we are to dress up as Tiger and Elin. A little risky...we'll see how it goes.

Tomorrow: going to a Christmas party where we have to dress up like a Christmas carol. Not sure what i'm going to be yet, but I’m thinking of being Rudolph or Cindy Lou.

And, the last half of the evening we are skipping on over to another Christmas party...an ugly sweater Christmas party!

busy busy busy time of year -- but wonderful!