"First we vote, then we eat. A lot."
-- my response to the kids when they asked what we were doing tonight
As has become customary for us the last few years, I took the girls out to eat at a place of their choosing the day before lent. They couldn't agree on where to go, and so fate interceded (also known as "rock paper scissors"), leading us to Golden Corral. And let me tell you, we definitely put on some weight this night.
But first, as noted, we did our civic duty and waited in an unexpectedly long line to vote. It was sort of anti-climatic because after that long wait, there were just two things to vote on, president and school board. Historically, they throw a bunch of things up for vote at once, and you find yourself in the booth toiling about some bond issue or other that you didn't expect too see on the ballot because you weren't paying attention to the entirety of your municipal government in action. But not today. Which, I suppose, was somewhat relieving. Because, of course, we were quite hungry. Shelby even asked when we got there if we could please go eat first. But I explained that we wouldn't make it back before the polling station closed. She didn't care much for that, but she still wanted her sticker.
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