not entirely...

al·tru·ism: \ˈal-trü-ˌi-zəm\ : unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others

when my sweet baby mentioned something about kind of wanting to go to the gator bowl, my mind did that leaping ADD thing that it does...

nebraska football... gator bowl... gator like alligators... florida...in january...where in florida?... where is jacksonville?... up the road from st augustine... lighthouse in st augustine... beaches... oh, we're so going... good wife... yes, good wife... football game, okay...

and so with a few quick clicks, we were off to florida to see the cornhuskers play some other team (?) in the gator bowl, and i was indeed a pretty good wife.

and altho the game was way more fun than i even imagined--who knew? i can't wait to go to another bowl game; and i now know that we played the C-L-E-M-S-O---N tigers, and that clemson is in south carolina; and that a team get's 4 tries to move 10 yards down the field... and that we got to see a lighthouse--a pretty famous lighthouse. the st. augustine lighthouse was built in 1824 in the nation's oldest city... you can read all about it here, and we climbed to the top...

and that we got to play in the ocean, hang out on the seashell beach, and see dolphins flip around...

... the very best part of this trip, which is totally anti-altruistic, was that i had dave all to myself for 4 days!