Union Terrace What a Treat

We spent the weekend in Madison, catching up with family, friends, and our renovations, since Jo was in Madison for a weeklong business meeting.  We started off by checking on the latest progress of our renovations.  Things have slowed way down as our tile guy is a very good tile mason and very meticulous, but also very, very slow.  While we were thinking all the work would be done by now on the first floor, the master bathroom is really only beginning.  However, the kitchen cabinets are beginning to be installed and look really great - but then almost anything new usually does.

After that fun, we headed over to the Memorial Union terrace to join our good friend, Sheri, for a beer (or two) in the sun while catching up on all the fun happening in CT and enjoying the lake views.  Sheri was in town for some work with the university and we got to spend a couple of days catching up.  As you can see in the photo, Madison is filled with 85 decorated Bucky Badgers (and yes, Jo has as one of her goals to find every one of them, so stay tuned for Bucky selfies).  These are kind of like cows on parade or the whales on parade that happened back in CT.  Anyway, I digress.  We had a wonderful time with Sheri and hopefully she is a little closer to thinking that maybe Madison is the right place to live in the near future, with Bruno of course.

Saturday, much like last week, we spent the day searching for furniture. this time in Madison.  While we weren't out nine hours like last week, we did put in a solid five.  We were successful in scoring a mattress for the bed we ordered last week and found a sectional sofa.  So things are looking up should anyone visit - there might actually be a place to sit instead of a folding chair or college age futon.  We also found a cool dining table that might make the cut depending on the options available for the top.  Saturday night was pretty low key as we were exhausted from shopping (it is amazing how stressful and how much energy it takes to shop for stuff).  So Sheri joined us at Kathy's dinner for Gino's lasagna (best lasagna we have ever had) and a rousing game of Mille Bornes.

We came home early Sunday morning and enjoyed a walk along the lake front before buckling down and plowing through some reading of accumulated newspapers.  Yes we are living the wild life.