Walk around Lake Geneva

 After enjoying boating around Lake Geneva multiple times with our friends, John and Linda, Jo and I decided it would be fun once to hike the path that circles the entire lake.  So two Saturday's ago, we packed our hiking bags with some food and water and set out early in the day to tackle the 21 mile loop.  It was beautiful day for the hike with sunny weather in the high 60's to low 70's.  It is a particularly enjoyable hike since you are trekking past all the mansions that line the lake since they are all required to provide deeded access to the hiking path.  It was interesting to see these homes a bit more up close and personal and to marvel at the size of the homes, which for the most part are second (or third/fourth) homes for people.  We enjoyed our hike although we had started to feel it with about 3 miles to go and were very happy to get back to the car and rest our weary tootsies.  A stop at Dairy Queen for some blizzards on the way home helped us to ease our aches and pains and replace some of the calories we burned off.  Once home, we got to assess the damage and besides a few truly impressive blisters the only other challenge was a few sore leg muscles and a bit too much sun for me on my neck and face.  We are already talking about whether we should try it again next year.


The night before our hike, we headed over to the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee to enjoy watching the Panther women's volleyball team take on the University of Illinois - Chicago.  We were able to get great seats since it was pretty sparsely attended.  It was a lot of fun to watch and got us both reminiscing about when we were younger and we could quickly move around the court - although never quite as well as these young women did.