We made our annual trek to Madison to spend the majority of the Thanksgiving week there. We filled the days with starting our Christmas shopping as well as starting to figure out exactly what what changes to our condo we might make. We had a lot of fun appliance shopping as appliances are way more complicated than they used to be with lots of manufacturers and lots of option to choose from. Same could be said for gas fireplaces - who knew you needed so many shapes, sizes, and interior choices. It was mostly fun, but a bit exhausting as well, since we realized we still have to choose tiles, carpeting, lights, and paint colors (I'm still holding out for just two - one wall, one trim, preferably in some shade of off-white - big surprise isn't that).
Before Thanksgiving all the visitors in town cheered the Badgers women's volleyball team on to a win over Iowa. Always makes Jo and I miss our volleyball playing days although our knees and wrists are glad to be in the stands instead of on the floor. I do wonder how many photos we have of Jo making the Wisconsin W - we might have to come up with something new for her to do with her hands in photos. We also spent a good bit of time catching up with family as Kathy and John hosted Thanksgiving dinner for everyone again. The turkey dinner was perfect as usual and we got to see our Wisconsin nephews/nieces and our brother-in-law, Mike, who drove in from Omaha.
Finally on Saturday we took in the final regular season football game with Minnesota. The game put an exciting end to our weekend as we looked to be losing for a good portion of the game before coming back in the late second half to win. Gave us lots to talk about on the way back home especially as we plotted Wisconsin post-season bowl possibilities. Sunday we took the time to begin decking out our home for Christmas as we selected our Christmas tree and begin the process of bringing down from the attic all the decorations.
We made our annual trek to Madison to spend the majority of the Thanksgiving week there. We filled the days with starting our Christmas shopping as well as starting to figure out exactly what what changes to our condo we might make. We had a lot of fun appliance shopping as appliances are way more complicated than they used to be with lots of manufacturers and lots of option to choose from. Same could be said for gas fireplaces - who knew you needed so many shapes, sizes, and interior choices. It was mostly fun, but a bit exhausting as well, since we realized we still have to choose tiles, carpeting, lights, and paint colors (I'm still holding out for just two - one wall, one trim, preferably in some shade of off-white - big surprise isn't that).
Finally on Saturday we took in the final regular season football game with Minnesota. The game put an exciting end to our weekend as we looked to be losing for a good portion of the game before coming back in the late second half to win. Gave us lots to talk about on the way back home especially as we plotted Wisconsin post-season bowl possibilities. Sunday we took the time to begin decking out our home for Christmas as we selected our Christmas tree and begin the process of bringing down from the attic all the decorations.
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