Uchenna says that back home, the whole country gets off for both Good Friday and Easter Monday, which makes for a great holiday. So he felt a little gipped this year only getting off Good Friday. I was surprised they even got that one day off. I never have, not from work.
We figured we didn't want to spend three days hanging around the house, so we jumped in the car and headed to Oklahoma City. Our main purpose was to go to the temple, which seemed appropriate for Easter. Apparently half the temple district had the same thought; I've never seen that little parking lot so packed.
Anyway, we went down Friday night, did a session, and stayed at a hotel. The next morning we took our time waking up, went to the temple again, then went for lunch, found some things we just had to buy, and headed home. We didn't even have to race the weather and try to get home before a storm let loose. Easy-peasy.
We've decided we like staying over, rather than trying to cram the temple and all that driving into one day. Also, with a hotel, you have a kind of home base or staging area, so you don't have to show up to the temple all tired out already and you have a place to rest afterwards. It makes for a much more pleasant, relaxed experience.
Of course it can start to add up if you try to do that every month. Because besides paying for a hotel, we also feel like we need to eat at a nice-ish place, a restaurant we don't have here in town. And when we go to a town with real stores, we feel a great need to buy something that we can't find here. So you gotta watch out for that.
On Sunday, our friends, the Meldrums, invited us and another family over for dinner, so that was festive. They had chicken and salmon. I think since ham isn't an option for us, salmon should become our traditional Easter feast. We quite like fish and don't have it all the time. Ta-duh--holiday meal tradition right there.
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