A Sports Weekend

We finally put out the luminaries and tried to snap a photo.  Unfortunately, I chose to use electric candles in them and could only find tea candle sized lights.  This left them a little dark, but it will have to do for this season - I'll look for some bigger, higher wattage candles in the new year.  So sorry for the poor quality shot, but it was the best my phone could do at night.  The poor picture aside, we are quite happy with how they turned out, now I just need to get all of them glazed and fired after this holiday season so they are all ready for next year.

As you can tell from the title of this week's posting, we spent most of the weekend attending sporting events in Madison.  We headed over Friday evening and managed to squeeze in dinner with Kathy and John before the volleyball match.  We met them at our condo and then headed down State Street for some pizza - it is nice to be able to walk to a wide variety of eating establishments, although it did lead to Jo and I discussing whether we will actually ever cook again once we live here full time.  Then it was over to the UW Fieldhouse for the Badger's women volleyball regional match.  They played Iowa State and won in three sets.  The Fieldhouse is a fun place to watch volleyball since it is relatively small and there really aren't any bad seats.  There was some absolutely phenomenal rallies during the match and the Iowa State band kept it entertaining with humorous phrases they yelled whenever the Badger's were serving.

Saturday morning, after breakfast at the Shortstack (rapidly becoming our go to breakfast place in Madison, Jo loves the chocolate chip pancakes and as I'm trying eggs Benedict around the world, their's rates a gold star) we headed out for a nice hike over to Lake Wingra in warm, sunny weather (a novelty for Wisconsin in December).  Then it was over to the Kohl Center to catch the men's basketball team play Temple.  We decided to buy tickets on the street from a ticket broker (often referred to as a scalper).  We have never, ever done this before and were a wee bit apprehensive.  But it turned out great for us, we showed up 15 minutes before the start of the game and were able to secure first level seats at a significant discount - guess he really didn't want to be stuck with the tickets.  Even better than the good deal on the tickets was the Badger's winning.

After the game, Jo headed out to do some Christmas shopping with Kathy and I puttered around the condo (OK it was mostly a nap and measuring a few items, I did attempt to fix one of the sinks though so I officially puttered).  We then finished the day with dinner at Kathy's.  After dinner we headed back home to Milwaukee.  Sunday we took it easy although we did take a nice long walk to lunch and did a little shopping at Boswell's bookstore on the way home.  And as you can tell from the photos, Jo still has her cast on - another two weeks to go.  She is really ready to have complete use of all her fingers - and I'm ready for her to stop clunking me in the head with it when she sleeps.