We had the opportunity to enjoy America's summer sport and catch two Brewer's games two weeks ago. Our neighbor invited us for one of the games and the other we used Northwestern Mutual's suite with several of Jo's colleagues from her team. We had great weather for both but only managed to pull out one win from the two games. On a side note, I always enjoy having a hot dog while watching baseball but can't for the life of me explain why, since I never eat hot dogs otherwise. Must be reliving my childhood in some way. Anyway, as always, we enjoyed watching the games, eating stadium food, and , of course, the sausage races (they haven't updated the race results for two months, but Polish was leading back in May).
We also made it to Summerfest, Milwaukee's main music festival, mostly to eat fair food but we also enjoyed listening to a few of the bands. We especially liked "Platinum" which kept us entertained for almost an hour with an interesting mix of what would be termed "oldies" (in other words songs from when we were in high school and college) and more contemporary songs. We also did a bit of people watching since Summerfest always brings out some interesting outfits - we especially liked the guy walking around in a Viking outfit including the horned helmet. Why, you might ask? Not a clue since as near as we could tell there was no Viking themed music, venue, costume contest, or party going on.
For the long fourth of July weekend we headed to Omaha to see our nieces and nephews and Mike (brother-in-law). We stayed a couple of nights in Madison at our condo before heading over to Nebraska since we took along Kathy, Jo's sister. Traffic was pretty reasonable although it does take a lot longer to get across states in the Midwest and West than it did when we lived on the east coast. It was really nice to enjoy some warmer weather, for once this summer, and we had perfect conditions for taking advantage of Mike's pool. The homeowner's association where Mike's house is put on a great fireworks display and since we could walk there we didn't have to deal with the usual post-firework traffic snarls that always seem to occur. Jo got in some serious clothes shopping which she loves to do on vacation and I found enough time to read a book or two. Mostly, we relaxed and played with our grand-nieces/nephews and marveled at how grown up all our nieces and nephews have become. All too soon, it was time to drive back to Wisconsin and get back to the day to day reality.
We had the opportunity to enjoy America's summer sport and catch two Brewer's games two weeks ago. Our neighbor invited us for one of the games and the other we used Northwestern Mutual's suite with several of Jo's colleagues from her team. We had great weather for both but only managed to pull out one win from the two games. On a side note, I always enjoy having a hot dog while watching baseball but can't for the life of me explain why, since I never eat hot dogs otherwise. Must be reliving my childhood in some way. Anyway, as always, we enjoyed watching the games, eating stadium food, and , of course, the sausage races (they haven't updated the race results for two months, but Polish was leading back in May).
We also made it to Summerfest, Milwaukee's main music festival, mostly to eat fair food but we also enjoyed listening to a few of the bands. We especially liked "Platinum" which kept us entertained for almost an hour with an interesting mix of what would be termed "oldies" (in other words songs from when we were in high school and college) and more contemporary songs. We also did a bit of people watching since Summerfest always brings out some interesting outfits - we especially liked the guy walking around in a Viking outfit including the horned helmet. Why, you might ask? Not a clue since as near as we could tell there was no Viking themed music, venue, costume contest, or party going on.
For the long fourth of July weekend we headed to Omaha to see our nieces and nephews and Mike (brother-in-law). We stayed a couple of nights in Madison at our condo before heading over to Nebraska since we took along Kathy, Jo's sister. Traffic was pretty reasonable although it does take a lot longer to get across states in the Midwest and West than it did when we lived on the east coast. It was really nice to enjoy some warmer weather, for once this summer, and we had perfect conditions for taking advantage of Mike's pool. The homeowner's association where Mike's house is put on a great fireworks display and since we could walk there we didn't have to deal with the usual post-firework traffic snarls that always seem to occur. Jo got in some serious clothes shopping which she loves to do on vacation and I found enough time to read a book or two. Mostly, we relaxed and played with our grand-nieces/nephews and marveled at how grown up all our nieces and nephews have become. All too soon, it was time to drive back to Wisconsin and get back to the day to day reality.
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