As there might be a new car in our future, we decided last week to hit the Milwaukee Auto show to see if we could find one or two models that got us excited. The short answer - not so much. While there are lots of car options, we didn't find one that we said - we must have that. But we did manage to focus our future seeking into a type of car - most likely a crossover. We need something on the smallish side to make parking at our condo easy and we like a car that we don't have to sit down into - old knees and joints are making that ever more difficult. We also figured that we would probably like to continue to have a hybrid since it would be hard to give up the fuel efficiency. So while we did manage to narrow down our options, we weren't able to get to just one choice. Just means there is a couple weeks of work in the future traipsing from car dealership to car dealership test driving cars.
For the weekend, we headed to Madison to take in our last home basketball game - Badgers scraped out a win, just barely - and a show at the Overture Center. We saw the King and I which is the first time we had seen the musical version. We had both seen Yul Brenner in the movie version - but the stage musical was a bit different. Good performance, although we both struggled to understand some the "British" accents some of the cast were using.
The rest of the time we had fun continuing to work on our 3,000 piece puzzle and breakfasting at a couple of diners around town. Sunday, we joined Kathy and John at "The Curve" for our favorite omelet and french toast in town. The food almost made up for the bitter cold temperatures - in March!
To celebrate our Irish heritage, we headed to downtown Milwaukee to enjoy the St. Patrick's day parade. While a bit chilly, we enjoyed the young Irish dancers and other's getting their green on. We did notice that it mostly seemed to be a time for people to just walk in a parade - especially politicians. We particularly enjoyed the Scottish and German organizations marching in the parade celebrating Irish heritage. Again, seemed like a good time to go out and walk down the streets of Milwaukee while keeping warm with a wee bit of alcohol. 
Otherwise, we have been enjoying the warm up in weather along with a trip over to Madison. Jo had a chemistry board meeting as our reason for the visit. It gave us a chance to get another load of stuff from one house to another as well as I got in a bit of cleaning. We did find time to take in the new Marvel's movie, get in a little shopping (rugs for the upstairs bathrooms!! - yes we live a wild and crazy existence), and a lovely dinner with Hans and Ieva at Eno Vino. Hans was the professor I did my graduate work with and it was fun reminiscing and learning about what everyone that was in the lab with me is currently doing. Dinner was also quite tasty although we did order a bit too much for the table.
