Hopefully the last time

Hi from snowy Wisconsin.   I am hoping this is our last trip, but I am not holding my breath.  I am tired of the sleeplessness even if it is for a paycheck.  I am too old for this!  Thank goodness my coworkers are much younger than me because they had to help me out big time.  Apparently, my body said not even just no but hell no to no sleep.  I seemed to have gotten a migraine on day 2, the night/day I was to take the 12-3 am shift.  While I thought I would just collapse and sleep it off, my body decided an hour in to make me feel like total crap and puking did not help like it usually does.  Of course, I had no meds, and my poor coworker tried to door dash me some relief, which of course didn't work at all because the door dasher didn't pick up the meds.  He finally drove into town and got the meds, and I got them on board in time to get a few hours of sleep before we had to head to the farm.  Of course, why not, my lovely friend the period fairy decided to grace me with a visit on top of all of this, which was totally not expected (thanks perimenopause).   Lucky for me, I always have solutions since it's never known when she might visit, but dang it body, can you not stack puking migraines and periods on top of each other?  

It was beautiful seeing all the snow and I do love this airbnb, but I am ready for this experiment to be over.  Too much time away from family and so much loss of sleep.  It literally takes me a week to get over the fatigue and sleep issues I incur while I am doing this experiment.  I am so very lucky in that my mom is in Kansas this week helping Tony with the house, dogs, and Andrew, or I would lose my mind coming home to chaos.   Enjoy some pictures from our trip!

Of course, what trip is complete without a trip through the greatest buffet ever, Toot Toot's?

My coworker chilling.  This is his first trip here with us and I think while we drive him nuts, he is doing pretty well keeping up with our crap.  

Got my new favorite the first night we were here.  

And my second favorite beer.

The snow is beautiful, but I wouldn't want to live here and deal with it all winter.  

It truly is the best place for lounging. Due to our sampling every 2 hours, we do a lot of this.  Don't get me wrong, the downtime from the hustle and bustle of normal life isn't a bad thing.  

I still don't understand the lure of ice fishing (See what I did there), but it is life here.  If I were a fish and it was this cold, I would go down very deep and not come up till springtime!

Didn't get the uber pretty colors like last time, but this is still gorgeous in my book.  

Never judge a book by its cover.  Jess found this amazing Chinese place in the middle of nothing that had really really good food for a great price.  

We had to celebrate Valentine's Day apart from our loved ones, but we made the best of it.  We had a good meal at the local bar and grill and had chocolate cake for dessert.  My coworker even bought Jess and I some chocolate because he knew we needed it.  

Tony had me roses back home which I got pictures of.  Glad my mom got to enjoy them since I was gone.  

We got done mid-day Saturday and voted to stay or me and one of my coworkers voted to stay and the other not so much.  I get it, he has small kids at home, and he misses them, but with the weather and the fact that all of us were very tired, I just didn't think it was a great idea to drive in the dark and late at night.  I found us a fun place that had food and wine flights, and we walked around their little downtown.  We found one place open that we could walk around, and it had a mix of old and new stuff.  We all found a little trinket or two to take home.  

We headed back bright and early Sunday morning, and I am glad we waited.  The roads were still not great until we got out of Wisconsin.  We made great time and despite a little bit of car sickness, got mostly unloaded and home.  I was able to enjoy my strawberry wine for dinner and spend some good family time before getting in bed and crashing.

Have a great week y'all!  I will be recovering and getting ready for some busy times.  I hope to get some runs done since I had a week off and the dogs are bouncing off of the walls.