Nothing but Sports

We spent last weekend catching up on Wisconsin sports.  We attended games at the Brewers and our first ever Packers game.  Quite the exciting weekend.

First up was the Brewers for a Friday night game.  We were invited by Greg and Rhonda (Jo works with Greg).  We had a great time hearing about their new home purchase - they are upsizing as they near their retirement to have sufficient size for their ever growing family.  We decided to have dinner at the Stadium Club so I wasn't able to partake in my usual ballpark frank, but it made it much easier to have a nice conversation as we watched the start of the game.  We eventually made it to our seats where we had another nice plus - the Brewers won the game, something that hasn't happened too often this year.

Saturday we were up early to get in our workouts before making the 2 hour drive to Green Bay and our first ever visit to storied Lambeau Field.  We were able to find some free on street parking not too far from the game - of course that might having something to do with arriving 3 hours before the start of the game.  We spent the time walking around enjoying all the tailgating, sports bars, and overall show that happens outside of the Packer's stadium.  We then settled into our seats in the NM suite that they arranged for the first time this year.  We were joined by several field reps from Philadelphia office (it was a Packers/Eagles matchup) that Jo had the chance to get to know a little better.  It was great to catch up on a place we lived for 16 years and some of the folks even knew about Rohm and Haas (a company that will all stay near and dear to our hearts since it was our first real job).  Unfortunately for us, but fortunate for them, the Packers didn't look particularly sharp and lost the game (they had pretty much lost the game in the first quarter) but since it was a preseason matchup didn't hurt their Superbowl chances.

After the game it was 2 hour drive home along with a lot of disappointed Packers fans, leading to us spending most of Sunday morning in bed catching up on some sleep.