Just Love the Eiffel Tower

As Milwaukee conducts the usual summer ritual of festivals we took time last week to enjoy on of our favorite, the French Fest (mostly because it is free and right downtown next to where Jo works).  In keeping with the French festival theme, it comes with the obligatory Eiffel Tower model that they erect every year and and which I dutifully post a picture of Jo standing by - she is by the left front pillar in case you couldn't find Waldo.  We enjoyed listening to some music and eating the festival food.  Especially the crepe filled with ice cream - although we were highly disappointed to find that the crepe place at a French festival wasn't offering crepes filled with Nutella.  That needs to be fixed, haven't they ever been to Paris for goodness sake!  Anyway the evening was cool and comfortable, we got to people watch, get dinner and dessert, and window shop all the interesting booths of stuff no one really needs to own.

Friday we joined our good friends, John and Linda, at their place in Lake Geneva for a weekend of relaxing on their boat and eating too much food - although I'm sad to say while multiple goodies from the Elegant Farmer were consumed, we didn't make it for frozen yogurt, waistlines aren't as forgiving as they used to be.  We had great weather for the three days with it actually warming up enough to enjoy sitting on the boat.  We got caught up on all the family doings and plans while drifting and bobbing in the water and did our best to solve all the world's problems.  Saturday night we rented the movie "Wild", which was very interesting and I would recommend it for a viewing.  All too soon it was time to head home on Sunday - but not before we got in a little more boat and jet ski time - to get everything cleaned up and ready for the work week.

Jo has Northwestern's annual meeting starting later this week, so we will be engaged in a round of dinners with that and my brother, wife, and son are stopping by for a visit on their way back from a vacation out east.  Should be an interesting week.