Very cool!!

I just got off the phone with Mark. I sent him with my brother in law John to Lambeau for the weekend. They're there for the Packer Draft Party. Believe it or not, Mark didn't really start getting excited about this until about Wednesday. (NOTE: Mark is a bigger Brett Favre fan than he is a Packer fan. I am both.) I started looking at the list of events for the party on Thursday night and I was a bit jealous that I wasn't going. I told him that next year my sister Ali and I were going. Anyway, Mark just called to tell me the really cool thing that happened to him just a couple of minutes ago. He got to meet, up close and personal, Mike McCarthy!!! For those of you who don't know who he is, he's the head coach for the Green Bay Packers. Mike had been speaking at the Draft Party and Mark happened to run into him by a back elevator after he was done speaking (Mike McCarthy, not Mark. It would be VERY scary to have Mark speak at a Packer event. Esepcially one where GM Ted Thompson would be present...as he was today). Mike actually went over to Mark, shook his hand and said hello to him. Too bad Mark didn't have a camera or my brother in law with him to get a picture. Anyway, Mark was excited about it and had to call home. Oh...Mike was headed to the administrative part of Lambeau because it's almost time for the Pack's first round pick.

Other exciting news: Hope's potty training continues to go in the right direction. YEAH!!!! And since Hope and I are having a bonding weekend this weekend, we were going to go to the zoo today. Well, since winter lasts 10 months of the year here and it's snowing today, we opted out of the zoo and decided to go see "Horton Hears a Who" instead. She did such an awesome job at the movie. Was quiet, at popcorn with Mommy, didn't fall asleep. She even went potty on the big girl chair at the theater when the movie was over. So it's been a good day!!!

Time to go start supper and listen to who the Packers are going to draft. I have no idea who they're even looking at.