Hokie Birds Fly South: Holiday whirlwind

Finals are finally over for the students at Wesleyan College and everyone is starting to head home, its kinda strange being on the other side as a coach/professor. I'm actually a little excited though for a nice quiet barn and being able to get in some real ride time. Look out Spence and prepare for boot camp! And, of course, Mike and I are super excited to travel up north to visit our families for Christmas.
So far our itinerary is as follows:
Christmas day: work at the barn (like I said before its not a holiday without ponies) leave Georgia at 12 noon
Dec. 26: Arrive insanely early in the morning in New Jersey
Dec. 29: Leave early from New Jersey to go to NoVA
Dec.30: Family Christmas in VA
Jan. 1: Head back to GA
In the whirlwind of the trip we are looking forward to catching up with as many family and friends as possible so if you're around let us know! We are also very excited to go see the national Christmas tree again. Last year we went for the first time together and met another couple who was there for the 32nd time! They were the sweetest couple and each year they go and have their picture taken with the tree all lit up. Of course after meeting them I was determined to do the same...so even though life moved us to Georgia we are going to make it happen!
One tiny down side to visiting up north? Well we are just a tad used to the super warm winter we've been having down here. Just the other day it was 83! Not quite sure how I'm going to handle normal winter temps again...I never handled them very well when I lived up north!
Hope to see everyone very soon and hope you are all having a very happy and safe holiday season so far!