Crayfish - Yum?

We had a very quiet week and weekend - for once.  During the week we did our usual exercising and I puttered around at a couple of small chores, none of which involved picking up a paint brush.  Although, I'm already starting to plan my winter indoor painting as several new cracks have appeared in a few walls since last winter's repair work.  We did enjoy a mid-week dinner at Sala (a local Italian restaurant) with our neighbors Josh and Lisa.  The food was excellent - especially my extra large cheese ravioli.

Our big event for the weekend was a party at our neighbors across the street.  He is originally from Sweden and apparently Swedish Crayfish parties are all the rage in Sweden.  So they decided to hold one in Milwaukee.  It was amazing how many people who originally came from Sweden were at the party since the population of Sweden isn't that large (must be like people of Irish decent in the US as compared to the population of Ireland).  Anyway, the main course was as advertised boiled crayfish (or crawdads as we called them growing up).  I must say these probably won't be showing up anytime soon in my cooking repertoire, they were delightful.  Although, it is way too much effort for how little meat there is in a crayfish.  Why not just eat lobster - more meat, looks about the same, and tastes way better.  Anyway, it was a fun party as most of the neighborhood was present and the aquavit was flowing liberally.

Sunday was a rainy day so we enjoyed watching our WI Packers win and got caught up on some future vacation planning - always fun.

Fun note, Google provides statistics on blogs.  Right now Russia is the second leading country accessing/reading this blog after the US.  Didn't know I was so popular over there.  Of course, when you only have about 10 people reading it a week, it doesn't take a lot of people to accidentally find the blog to move a country up high on the list.