Meredith spent a long weekend at home and returned to Grand Forks today [Sunday, March 8, 2009]. While home she visited her grandfather, Firemann, who is hospitalized after having his gall bladder removed. His recuperation is slow, no surprise given that he will celebrate his 91st birthday this week.
Mere isn't crazy about my penchant for taking surprise photos of her and threatened me with bodily harm if I published them. So I'm taking the safe route and putting up some shots she provided me.
Megan, Arin, Diane, and Meredith are part a Legal Clinic team at UND's law school. They serve real clients and one of their cases will be heard on appeal to the North Dakota Supreme Court. The aspiring lawyers have permission to argue the case before the high court though they, obviously, are not licensed to practice law. Mere said they'll draw straws to see who gets to present oral argument on behalf of a woman claiming she was unfairly denied unemployment compensation.
It's not all work and no play for these law students who rented a "fun bus" to transport them around Grand Forks one night. They were celebrating Hump Day, that time in their education when they are half-done with law school.
Mere went ice fishing for the first time in her life near Rochester, Minnesota. Her boyfriend's father, Larry, help her hold the whopper aloft. You have to look pretty closely to find it on this photo. It probably shrunk when it was exposed to the cold air.
A couple of weeks later, Mere joined classmates Arin and Megan for more ice fishing, this time near Megan's home town of Linton, North Dakota. After they removed all the big ones, the trio stopped in Bismarck for lunch before heading back to school.