Busy Weekend with the Brewers and the Zoo

Friday night we started our weekend with dinner and a show.  Along with our friends, Tim and Rosalie, we headed downtown to the Rumpus Room for a tasty dinner along with two excellent desserts (sticky toffee pudding and caramel bread pudding, for the table not just for me).  Then it was a short walk in the cold rain to the Rep Theater to see the Doyle and Debbie show.  This was a very funny comedy that had the entire audience almost rolling on the floor with laughter.  The two main performers did a wonderful job handling the comedic timing as well as all the singing in the performance.  The performance really made up for the very cold and rainy weather outside.

While I'm on the weather, winter had decided to give us a little early taste over the last few days.  We have struggled to get into the high 50's or low 60's and the evenings are down in the 40's.  We haven't had any snow like some parts of the country, but it certainly feels like it isn't far away.  I am resisting putting on the heat in the house, but there have been some really cold nights with the temperature in the house dipping to around 60-62 degrees.  I'm not sure how much longer Jo is going to let me hold out on turning on the furnace.

Saturday morning after our exercising, Jo decided to get blonder during her haircut and came home almost as blond as when we first met (maybe even blonder, but who remembers that far back).  Then it was off to a massage for each of us before we headed to the ballpark to see the Brewers play along with our neighbors, Audrey and John.  Unfortunately, we once again brought the Brewers bad luck as they lost, but it was Hank the dog bobble head day so Jo got to add to her bobble head collection (see below for more details).


Sunday dawned a bright and sunny day although still cold.  Just to repeat the fun from Saturday, we had tickets to the Brewers again - these were sudden spur of the moment tickets that Northwestern Mutual had and couldn't find anyone to use.  It was another bobble head day - this time it was Robin Yount - so Jo's collection grew to eleven.  She has been collecting them since our Connecticut days but has made the most progress since our move to Wisconsin.  The Brewers managed to win this game so we don't always jinx them.  After the game we went to the Milwaukee Zoo for a Northwestern Mutual event.  They had rented out the zoo for all the home office employees so we walked around meeting some of the people that Jo works with while seeing a few new animal exhibits.  We especially enjoyed seeing the tree kangaroos.  I never new that tree kangaroos existed and one of them had a baby which was too cute for words. 

Then it was home to collapse into bed to rest up for the work week - well Jo's work week.  Oh, for anyone wondering why there wasn't a post last week.  Jo and I spent a quiet weekend at home just taking easy.  The only noteworthy activity was we biked downtown to enjoy dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, the Smoke Shack, where we enjoyed the pulled pork sandwiches (notice the significantly less blond hair color as compared to the pictures above).