We spent a wonderful five days in New Mexico over the holidays visiting my folks. The weather cooperated by being sunny and reasonably warm. Living in Wisconsin we certainly miss the sun during the winter, so having several days with the sun out was a real treat. We were able to get in several nice long hikes in the hills surrounding my parent's house and while the wildlife was fairly absent (although my parents claimed they saw a coyote just before we got back from a hike), the solitude and the chance for us to chat was nice. Days were spent reading, putting a challenging puzzle together, and lots of card playing. Fortunately, for a second visit in a row, my Mom and I emerged victorious with the overall winning record. Partly it comes from our very wise playing and some from good luck with the cards - but, I'm mostly putting it down to our deeply insightful bidding and card playing. Our opponents might disagree, but as I've said before - I write this blog, so I get to decide on the outcome.
We came home to enjoy a few days of vacation before Jo had to head back to work. We spent these goofing off and enjoying watching a lot of college football bowl games. One of which was our hometown Badgers winning the Pinstripe Bowl - yeah! We also were able to take in this year's TSO concert at the new Milwaukee arena with family and friends. They gave another great concert with flames shooting everywhere, people being lifted into the air while playing guitars and violins, and lasers galore. For New Year's Eve, Kathy and John joined us for a pretty quiet night of playing some games, sipping Prosecco, and watching the NY ball drop at 11 PM. It was off to bed for us so we didn't technically make it to the official central time zone midnight. But we then we are getting up there in years.
We spent a wonderful five days in New Mexico over the holidays visiting my folks. The weather cooperated by being sunny and reasonably warm. Living in Wisconsin we certainly miss the sun during the winter, so having several days with the sun out was a real treat. We were able to get in several nice long hikes in the hills surrounding my parent's house and while the wildlife was fairly absent (although my parents claimed they saw a coyote just before we got back from a hike), the solitude and the chance for us to chat was nice. Days were spent reading, putting a challenging puzzle together, and lots of card playing. Fortunately, for a second visit in a row, my Mom and I emerged victorious with the overall winning record. Partly it comes from our very wise playing and some from good luck with the cards - but, I'm mostly putting it down to our deeply insightful bidding and card playing. Our opponents might disagree, but as I've said before - I write this blog, so I get to decide on the outcome. 
We came home to enjoy a few days of vacation before Jo had to head back to work. We spent these goofing off and enjoying watching a lot of college football bowl games. One of which was our hometown Badgers winning the Pinstripe Bowl - yeah! We also were able to take in this year's TSO concert at the new Milwaukee arena with family and friends. They gave another great concert with flames shooting everywhere, people being lifted into the air while playing guitars and violins, and lasers galore. For New Year's Eve, Kathy and John joined us for a pretty quiet night of playing some games, sipping Prosecco, and watching the NY ball drop at 11 PM. It was off to bed for us so we didn't technically make it to the official central time zone midnight. But we then we are getting up there in years.
Nice socks!
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