faux spring break

last week was liberty's spring break...for students.  for staff...last week was faux spring break.  what does that mean?  for me, that meant late to the office in the morning and early exit from the office in the afternoon.  and an extended lunch, of course.  honestly though, spring break on campus is so very relaxing.  it's quiet.  it's productive.  what made it even better?  beautiful, warm weather.  i'm talking eighty plus degree weather.  it was like the beach weather came to lynchburg.  here are some highlights of my faux spring break:

a beautiful sunset

celebrating thirty years of birthdays for jenn!  it certainly was better than the other celebration we could have thrown, right ladies?  maybe for someone else!  ;)  to help with the celebrations, we went for a little afternoon game of putt-putt and had our picture sketched. 

shared a first shamrock shake moment with the eibans family, even emmie participated!  after the shamrock shakes, i enjoyed a nice evening walk with ash and emily (and their cuties, of course!).

saturday = st. patty's day.  the girls and i traveled to roanoke to check out the st. patty's day parade.  turned out to be a hot day and a long, long parade (nothing like our little christmas parades here!).  we were thankful none of the guys chose to come with us because we were certain they would have been complaining.  it was fun though; full of lots of green, kilts, and bagpipes (and tons of bystanders).  we had a little snackie from {mill mountain coffee and tea}.  they had some fun, themed drinks.  my choice:  the day after, a delicious, refreshing italian soda.  it was even colored green.  fun!  a lunch trip to chipotle, quick shopping trip, and ice cream stop also filled our small trip.

 thankful for a relaxing week with friends. until next year...SPRING BREAK!