We enjoyed a visit from my parents and sister this week. Mom and Dad stopped in Chicago on their way to a cruise of the Mississippi - which became a cruise of the Ohio due to the flooding on the Mississippi - and they all took Amtrak up to enjoy a short stay in Milwaukee. After a wonderful lunch at our favorite BBQ place downtown, the Smoke Shack, and a quick visit to Boswell's bookstore, we spent the afternoon catching up. That evening after dinner of roasted chicken (I'm now hooked on beer-can chicken) we celebrated my older (much, much older) sister's birthday with a little cake and the obligatory singing. Then it was cards until the wee hours of the night - wee for us, which meant about 10:00 - enjoying the new game of 99 that we learned from John and Linda last weekend in Lake Geneva.
For the holiday weekend, we started off on Thursday night with Jo and I meeting at Bradford beach on her walk home from work to enjoy some AVP volleyball. Amazing to watch two people cover an entire volleyball court and remembering back to our much younger days when we could do that. Afterwards we were sitting on our front porch enjoying some Mike's Hard Lemonade (we got really exhausted watching them play volleyball) our neighbor invited us to bike to the local movie theater to see the movie, "Chef". We decided on the spur of the moment to go and really enjoyed the movie and the company. We would highly recommend seeing Chef. Unfortunately, that made popcorn our dinner for the evening, since after the movie we biked down to watch the Milwaukee fireworks display along with tens of thousands of our closest friends.
Friday we lazed in bed a bit before biking down to watch one of the local 4th of July parades - using parade in the broadest sense, this parade is mostly the local residents walking behind 1 fire truck, 1 police car, 4 people playing trumpets, and 1 banner announcing it is a parade! But it was fun to watch for the first time and see a few people we have met since we moved here. Then it was up to City Market to enjoy a cinnamon roll and milk while sitting in outside enjoying the freedom of a three day weekend (well Jo was mostly enjoying that, since every week is kind of that for me). The rest of the day we spent goofing around the house and planning some future vacations. We are a firm believer in always using vacation days to plan for more vacation days. That evening we went to our friends, Rhonda and Greg, for an evening BBQ with several of their friends. Delightful evening although a bit chilly for the first week in July. We tried to do our patriotic bit by making our fruit pizza dessert into the pattern of the flag.
Saturday and Sunday were spent in active laziness. While we did get in some exercising and took a couple of long walks we really worked at not doing too much. We got a little bit of the way through our backlog of taped shows and watched a movie each evening. Home made rhubarb/strawberry crisp (rhubarb was from our garden0 with home made vanilla ice cream was on the dessert menu to top off a relaxing weekend. It was nice to have a couple of days without a lot planned for once. Upcoming week looks like business as usual for both of us.
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