To keep our streak alive of never being home on weekends, we headed over to Madison to enjoy another sports filled weekend. That's right - we don't do sports anymore, we just watch them now. It feels marginally better than watching them on TV since you at least had to walk to the stadium so you can claim a little exercise. Anyway, we started off on Friday night watching the women's volleyball team lose in five sets to Ohio State. Not the best way to start our weekend, but it got better, especially stopping for half-price donuts on the way home.
We were up bright and early on Saturday to squeeze a many errands in before the start of the Badger football game telecast. First up was a stop at Woodman's grocery store to stock up on staples (it's a warehouse store and beats anything in the Milwaukee area) then it was over to pick out paint colors for our condo walls. This was followed by a stop in the lighting store to find out they had lost our lighting order - we have the items but we need to recreate what we wanted where, not a tragedy, but not a great recommendation for the store. Then it was over to Kathy's by eleven AM to catch our breath and catch up with her and John while watching the Badgers beat Indiana on TV. Then after a wonderful pork tenderloin dinner it was back to our condo to drop off the car before getting some exercise for the day walking to another volleyball game. This ended better with a win in four sets over Maryland.
We finished up our weekend with an early morning breakfast on Sunday - that time change will get ya - at the Curve where we discovered one of the best omelets and hash browns we have had in our travels through Madison diners. We then hung around the condo catching up on some work (Jo) or reading (Me) until it was time to head to the Kohl's center for a men's basketball game. These are new tickets for us and it is tough to score tickets to men's basketball. So we are the in the second to last row in the stadium and these aren't seats for the faint of heart. The Kohl's center has a really steep pitch which gives great views as long as you don't suffer from vertigo. But putting the lack of oxygen due to the elevation aside, we had a great time watching the new team win over another UW school. Afterwards, we heated up some pizza for dinner in the condo before hitting the road home. Busy weekend, but lots of fun activities, although three sporting events in a weekend is a bit much.
To keep our streak alive of never being home on weekends, we headed over to Madison to enjoy another sports filled weekend. That's right - we don't do sports anymore, we just watch them now. It feels marginally better than watching them on TV since you at least had to walk to the stadium so you can claim a little exercise. Anyway, we started off on Friday night watching the women's volleyball team lose in five sets to Ohio State. Not the best way to start our weekend, but it got better, especially stopping for half-price donuts on the way home.
We were up bright and early on Saturday to squeeze a many errands in before the start of the Badger football game telecast. First up was a stop at Woodman's grocery store to stock up on staples (it's a warehouse store and beats anything in the Milwaukee area) then it was over to pick out paint colors for our condo walls. This was followed by a stop in the lighting store to find out they had lost our lighting order - we have the items but we need to recreate what we wanted where, not a tragedy, but not a great recommendation for the store. Then it was over to Kathy's by eleven AM to catch our breath and catch up with her and John while watching the Badgers beat Indiana on TV. Then after a wonderful pork tenderloin dinner it was back to our condo to drop off the car before getting some exercise for the day walking to another volleyball game. This ended better with a win in four sets over Maryland.
We finished up our weekend with an early morning breakfast on Sunday - that time change will get ya - at the Curve where we discovered one of the best omelets and hash browns we have had in our travels through Madison diners. We then hung around the condo catching up on some work (Jo) or reading (Me) until it was time to head to the Kohl's center for a men's basketball game. These are new tickets for us and it is tough to score tickets to men's basketball. So we are the in the second to last row in the stadium and these aren't seats for the faint of heart. The Kohl's center has a really steep pitch which gives great views as long as you don't suffer from vertigo. But putting the lack of oxygen due to the elevation aside, we had a great time watching the new team win over another UW school. Afterwards, we heated up some pizza for dinner in the condo before hitting the road home. Busy weekend, but lots of fun activities, although three sporting events in a weekend is a bit much.
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