We decided to see how many activities you could pack into four days over the last weekend. We started on Thursday with going to the Milwaukee Bucks playoff game against the Boston Celtics at the Bradley Center. These were last minute tickets courtesy of Northwestern Mutual - go NM! Since the Bradley Center is going to be torn down this summer as the Bucks move to their new arena this was the last basketball game there as well. We were fortunate to use the Northwestern Mutual suite and got to see an exciting game in which the home town team won - unfortunately, the Bucks lost over the weekend and were eliminated from the playoffs. We had a great time cheering the team on, so much, that Jo's voice was pretty raspy for the rest of the evening and most of the following day. Lastly, this will be the last picture of the Bucks blimp from inside the Bradley Center.
On Friday, I picked up Jo from work and we headed to Madison to check on our condo and to watch the Badger volleyball team play an exhibition match with their cross-state rivals, Marquette. The condo is coming along, especially as we hadn't seen it about a month, although progress has slowed since the tile installation didn't get started on time and is currently the rate controlling step. But our fireplace surrounds are complete and came out like we had envisioned. Also the walls have been painted and we both like the new color - and yes the walls are white for all those who were hoping we might actually put some color on our walls for once. We went to the volleyball game with Kathy and John and had a lot of fun watching the games. Also, in keeping with the weekend tradition the home town team won in three sets. Both Jo and I reflected how watching the women play makes us miss the days when we used to play volleyball, before wrist, knee, and ankle joints all started making it painful.
Saturday we were up early to chat with Kathy and John a bit before we got in the car to drive to Elmhurst for a visit with our friends, John and Linda (and yes, we know a lot of John's). Linda, John, and I are all turning sixty this year (and yes, the names are listed in the order of birthdays - I'm the youngest of the three by many, many months!!!). To celebrate we got tickets to see Hamilton downtown Chicago and then we headed out for a celebratory dinner at Gaetano's in Forest Park. Jo did remind us and anyone else who would listen that she wasn't anywhere near our age. Anyway, it was a lot of fun catching up with John and Linda as well as seeing Hamilton again. And the show didn't disappoint in the second viewing and we all found that you see things you missed in the first viewing. We also made sure to take the obligatory Hamilton photo. The only thing remaining on our Hamilton bucket list is seeing the show in New York - well that is on Jo's bucket list, which means it is on mine as well, I suppose. Dinner was Italian and tasty even the birthday tiramisu's for dessert.
Sunday after a wonderful french toast brunch which Linda managed to whip up at the last minute after we decided to not go to a restaurant, we headed home to Milwaukee in time to catch up on a few chores before Jo and Kathy (over from Madison) went to the Bon Jovi concert at the Bradley Center. So, Jo managed in 4 days to see the last basketball game at the Bradley Center as well as the last concert. And in July she will attend the last convention to be held at the Center when Northwestern Mutual hosts its annual get together there - quite a list of lasts that she is accumulating. She is also going to be one tired puppy today as the concert didn't finish until eleven last night and she has been on the go for four straight days.
We decided to see how many activities you could pack into four days over the last weekend. We started on Thursday with going to the Milwaukee Bucks playoff game against the Boston Celtics at the Bradley Center. These were last minute tickets courtesy of Northwestern Mutual - go NM! Since the Bradley Center is going to be torn down this summer as the Bucks move to their new arena this was the last basketball game there as well. We were fortunate to use the Northwestern Mutual suite and got to see an exciting game in which the home town team won - unfortunately, the Bucks lost over the weekend and were eliminated from the playoffs. We had a great time cheering the team on, so much, that Jo's voice was pretty raspy for the rest of the evening and most of the following day. Lastly, this will be the last picture of the Bucks blimp from inside the Bradley Center.
On Friday, I picked up Jo from work and we headed to Madison to check on our condo and to watch the Badger volleyball team play an exhibition match with their cross-state rivals, Marquette. The condo is coming along, especially as we hadn't seen it about a month, although progress has slowed since the tile installation didn't get started on time and is currently the rate controlling step. But our fireplace surrounds are complete and came out like we had envisioned. Also the walls have been painted and we both like the new color - and yes the walls are white for all those who were hoping we might actually put some color on our walls for once. We went to the volleyball game with Kathy and John and had a lot of fun watching the games. Also, in keeping with the weekend tradition the home town team won in three sets. Both Jo and I reflected how watching the women play makes us miss the days when we used to play volleyball, before wrist, knee, and ankle joints all started making it painful.
Saturday we were up early to chat with Kathy and John a bit before we got in the car to drive to Elmhurst for a visit with our friends, John and Linda (and yes, we know a lot of John's). Linda, John, and I are all turning sixty this year (and yes, the names are listed in the order of birthdays - I'm the youngest of the three by many, many months!!!). To celebrate we got tickets to see Hamilton downtown Chicago and then we headed out for a celebratory dinner at Gaetano's in Forest Park. Jo did remind us and anyone else who would listen that she wasn't anywhere near our age. Anyway, it was a lot of fun catching up with John and Linda as well as seeing Hamilton again. And the show didn't disappoint in the second viewing and we all found that you see things you missed in the first viewing. We also made sure to take the obligatory Hamilton photo. The only thing remaining on our Hamilton bucket list is seeing the show in New York - well that is on Jo's bucket list, which means it is on mine as well, I suppose. Dinner was Italian and tasty even the birthday tiramisu's for dessert. 
Sunday after a wonderful french toast brunch which Linda managed to whip up at the last minute after we decided to not go to a restaurant, we headed home to Milwaukee in time to catch up on a few chores before Jo and Kathy (over from Madison) went to the Bon Jovi concert at the Bradley Center. So, Jo managed in 4 days to see the last basketball game at the Bradley Center as well as the last concert. And in July she will attend the last convention to be held at the Center when Northwestern Mutual hosts its annual get together there - quite a list of lasts that she is accumulating. She is also going to be one tired puppy today as the concert didn't finish until eleven last night and she has been on the go for four straight days.
Count us in for NYC Hamilton!
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