Go Pack Go

I took a few days to visit my folks in Albuquerque last week and to enjoy some slightly warmer weather.  While I was hoping for something in the 60's, it was more like in the 40's.  Still a little better than what Wisconsin was having, but not a lot better.  We had a great time putting up their Christmas tree and enjoying some excellent Mexican food - more restaurants around the country should be serving sopaipillas!  I lucked out with good travel connections on both legs which is always a bit of a miracle this time of year.

Over last weekend, we had our first real snowfall, 8-9 inches.  Now I live in Wisconsin and snow in the winter is just part of the bargain, but the first snowfall should be more like a half an inch.  We should certainly get a training snow to ease into the winter shoveling season.  Get our muscles trained up, remember the best way and direction to be shoveling the snow, and make sure all the equipment is working.  We should not be hammered with a major dumping right out the gate.

Saturday night we took in the Foreigner at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater with our friends, Greg and Rhonda.  This is by far our favorite play ever since we first saw it in CT with Sheri and Bruno.  We are almost always in tears in the middle of the second act from laughing so hard.  Afterwards, we enjoyed a wonderful dinner at Lake Park Bistro as the snow slowly tumbled down.

Sunday morning it was up to shovel the afore mentioned snow before heading up to Green Bay to watch our Packers demolish the Seattle Seahawks.  This was a work event for Jo as we were joined by some of the west coast sales representatives for Northwestern Mutual.  We had a lot of fun cheering on the home and, of course, it helped that Green Bay won the game.

Temperatures for the week look to remind us of what can happen in Wisconsin in the winter as the high tomorrow is supposed to stay in the single digits - the low single digits.