I had to wait until today to post this week, since I wanted to start the August collection of posts and stop adding to my July numbers. We had a lovely week that included as you might tell from the title seeing some air shows. Milwaukee had their annual air show (at least it is annual if they can find the funding which is always an annual challenge). While we weren't in town for the "official" air show portion we did get to watch the fighter jets practicing over the skies of downtown on Thursday and Friday. As we are now on the 14th story of a building the views of the jets screaming around the sky are quite remarkable. To add to our viewing opportunities, we were enjoying an outdoor lunch at the Comet Cafe (always worth a stop if you are hungry and on Farwell) with John and Linda and two of their daughters, plus one newly added grandson, when what should go rocketing by overhead - more jets practicing. Made for an interesting lunch as we constantly twisted our necks around trying to locate them in between having our ear drums blown out from the jet engines. Oh by the way, there aren't any pictures of the jets flying around because I have found from experience that it is tough to get a really good shot as they whiz by at 600 mph.
After our lunch we hopped in the car with John and Linda to enjoy a long weekend at their lake house which is close to Oshkosh where every year they hold the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) air show. Once again we didn't actually attend any of the events at the EAA, but we did get to enjoy a few hours of watching the planes looping in the air while out on the lake. We had a fun time out on their boat and jet skis (although I did manage to knock off one of the mirrors on one of their jet skis due to my poor steering skills when in tight quarters with them - don't let me helm your boat in other words!) and did take the plunge in the lake for the first time to cool off a bit. Fortunately, we were able to find a place that was relatively algae free as Lake Winnebago tends to get a fairly robust growth of algae - which apparently every year from what the locals have said.
We also found some time on Saturday to attend the Cedar Grove Dutch festival. John has Dutch roots (his parents emigrated from there) and so it was a must go. We snacked on festival food, which included the Dutch treat, olie bollen. Basically a doughnut fried in oil - how can that be bad. They were especially good as the base under ice cream later that night. My favorite part of the Dutch festival is the washing of the streets before the clog dancers and parade occurs. Just imagine hundreds of young kids out scrubbing about six blocks of downtown Cedar Grove. Really fun to watch.
We also crossed another supper club off of John and Linda's list which while the steak were great, the steamed brussel sprouts left everyone wishing they had ordered the cheesy potatoes. As always, John and Linda were great hosts and we had a really relaxing weekend.
After our lunch we hopped in the car with John and Linda to enjoy a long weekend at their lake house which is close to Oshkosh where every year they hold the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) air show. Once again we didn't actually attend any of the events at the EAA, but we did get to enjoy a few hours of watching the planes looping in the air while out on the lake. We had a fun time out on their boat and jet skis (although I did manage to knock off one of the mirrors on one of their jet skis due to my poor steering skills when in tight quarters with them - don't let me helm your boat in other words!) and did take the plunge in the lake for the first time to cool off a bit. Fortunately, we were able to find a place that was relatively algae free as Lake Winnebago tends to get a fairly robust growth of algae - which apparently every year from what the locals have said.
We also found some time on Saturday to attend the Cedar Grove Dutch festival. John has Dutch roots (his parents emigrated from there) and so it was a must go. We snacked on festival food, which included the Dutch treat, olie bollen. Basically a doughnut fried in oil - how can that be bad. They were especially good as the base under ice cream later that night. My favorite part of the Dutch festival is the washing of the streets before the clog dancers and parade occurs. Just imagine hundreds of young kids out scrubbing about six blocks of downtown Cedar Grove. Really fun to watch.We also crossed another supper club off of John and Linda's list which while the steak were great, the steamed brussel sprouts left everyone wishing they had ordered the cheesy potatoes. As always, John and Linda were great hosts and we had a really relaxing weekend.
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