Similar Photo - Different Week

We were off to Madison again last weekend.  We headed over early to beat our first snowstorm of the season.  Lucky that we did as it dumped around 4-6 inches and travel would have been a nightmare.  This gave us a little extra time to hang out and relax.  Although, lately relaxing seems to be tied to falling asleep.  Whenever I just try to relax, such as read a book, that seems to send a signal to my brain that it is time to get in some quality napping time.  Anyway, we had brought over pizza to heat up and had a lovely night sitting around talking about our exciting and stressful week, watching a fun movie, and heading to bed a bit earlier than usual.

Saturday morning we decided to forgo our usual morning walk since the sidewalks and streets where still snow covered.  This provided some time to finish a few work items around the condo - bolting down some shelves and installing a drying rack under our upstair sink.  All exciting things, I know.  Then it was off to the Wisconsin versus Michigan basketball game.  It was quite the thriller with the Badgers hanging on to defeat the undefeated Wolverines.  At the buzzer, the students (and a few student wanna-bees) rushed the floor.  There was a tremendous energy in the stadium and hardly anyone left for 20 minutes.  You would have thought we just won the NCAA final four championship - not just a regular season game, but then it was Michigan we beat.

Later that day we had dinner with our friends, Jim and Judy, at the Tornado supper club.  Supper clubs are scattered throughout Wisconsin it seems and range from upper end establishments (with prices to match) to places you would want to think twice about entering.  Fortunately, Tornado is on the upper end side and we had a tasty dinner with excellent cocktails - we were celebrating so there might have been more than one cocktail consumed.

Sunday we joined Kathy and John for a great broccoli and bacon egg frittata thingy (you really can't go wrong by simply adding bacon to almost any breakfast dish), before heading home.  We did stop at the Container store on the way home to do a little shopping - I really think I could go there every week, it really speaks to the organizer inside of me.  On MLK day, Jo had the day off and the NM suite at the Bucks arena, so we got to see the hometown Bucks beat the Dallas Mavericks and complete our basketball bookends to our weekend.