Happy Thanksgiving

Enjoy the turkey dinner and time with family and friends.

And so the Snow Starts

I was mowing the grass in a t-shirt on Thursday to waking up to snow this morning.  Granted not a lot of snow, but it means the temperatures have fallen 30-35 degrees in two days.  Here we go......snow shoveling anyone.  Really hard when you figure it might not be 60 degrees again until May 2017.

Chicago Trip

As mentioned in the previous post, Jo was in Phoenix for a couple of days before flying to Chicago for her board work.  This involved a couple of dinners where spouses were invited, so I headed down on the train to join Jo.  While Jo was in meetings I had some time to catch up with my sister and visit another Chicago museum - we are slowly working our way through all of them (might take another 5-6 years to hit them all, by which time there will probably be a whole new set of them).

We took in Chicago's Radio and TV museum.  Fun museum with interesting displays on Chicago TV that both of us remember from our childhoods.  Not sure what it says when things you grew up with are now deemed museum worthy - can't be that we are getting old.  We really enjoyed watching some of the clips from Johnny Carson's show.  It was a nice visit and the weather couldn't have been better as it in the mid 60's each day - always a treat in November.

As for the photo, just had to have a picture of the giant Lincoln encouraging us to vote.

Go Illini, Go Badgers

Last weekend was our two schools playing each other in football at Madison.  So since we were guaranteed a win for one of our schools we headed over to enjoy some college football.  We drove over on Friday and picked up dinner at Teddy Wedgers - a meat filled pastry that is sold around the corner from our condo.  Very tasty and quite filling, we will definitely be trying it again.  Then we headed over to the Kohl Center to try and score some last minute tickets to one of the early games for the Badger basketball team.  Since they were playing Western Arkansas we figured that we wouldn't have any problem buying them either on the street or the ticket booth at the last minute.  Oops on our part - we could only find single seat tickets, even from the ticket brokers/scalpers on the street.  So instead we headed over to the Union and caught a movie - Captain Fantastic.  Fun flick, but a bit weird.  On the way home we picked up some Krispy Kreme doughnuts and milk to finish the night off on a sweet note.

Saturday morning we tried out another of the local diners, Lazy Jane's, for breakfast. Then it was time for the game along with Kathy and John.  Everyone was all bundled up since although the day was sunny it was a bit on the chilly side.  Wisconsin pretty much dominated Illinois so the game wasn't exactly a cliffhanger.  But since the home town team won, most of the local folks were happy.  Afterwards, it was back to the condo for pizza and exciting games of Tenzi (a dice game).

We headed back home on Sunday since Jo had to fly to Phoenix in the afternoon for work.