Friday evening Travalon and I went to a fish fry with
another couple I have never mentioned on this blog, but we are also going to
the Wisconsin vs. Duke game with them on Wednesday, so I suppose they do need a
way to be referred to. For now I’ll call them The Other Couple. I suppose my
regular readers are saying to themselves, “Famous Hat, when did you get to be
such a basketball fan?” The answer is that I am not a huge basketball fan, but
neither is the female half of the Other Couple, so this is simply a double date
doing what the men want to do. I feel a little guilty, knowing Prairie Man and
several others I know would love to be at this game, so I’ll try really hard to
enjoy it for their sakes.
Saturday morning Travalon and I met Mama Step at the Manna Café
for brunch. She wants to have a viewing party for the first episode of the new
season of Downton Abbey, but guess
who hasn’t seen a single episode of it yet? Looks like I may have to do some
remedial viewing between now and then. Travalon kind of wanted to go to the
Badger football game, and the weather was actually quite warm (at least
compared to what it’s been), but we decided to just take Rodney for a romp at
the dog park and then watch part of the game at the Wauna-Bowl. We were going
to head to Country Springs, where Travalon had earned a free night in an
executive suite with a whirlpool by trying all the martinis in their Martini
Club, but we ended up watching the rest of the game. By the time we got to
Country Springs, there wasn’t much time left to enjoy the water park, so we
didn’t do that (since it costs extra). Instead, we went through the Christmas
light display, which was very cool. The whirlpool in our room was great, but
the water was kind of lukewarm.
Sunday we’d been planning to go to Mass in Pewaukee, but we
got going in time to grab some coffee and head home to walk Rodney before the
11 am Mass just down the road from us. (We have gone to the 9 am Mass there a
couple of times when running too late to get to our parish downtown.) Then we
watched the excellent Packers game. Can you believe we (barely) beat Tom Brady
and the Patriots? Luxuli and Prairie Man were actually at the game, lucky
ducks. In the evening Rich threw a birthday party for Travalon (whose actual
birthday is today), and Kathbert, Jilly Moose, Catzookz, Cecil Markovitch, and
both B-Boys came. Rich made lasagna and actually got two cakes, a turtle
cheesecake and a gluten-free chocolate cake. Travalon enjoyed his birthday
party; he says he hasn’t had one since fifth grade. Now that he’s part of our
gang, that has all changed – we love having parties for any reason, and
birthdays are a really good excuse.
Happy birthday, Travalon!
Famous Hat
1 comment:
Its nice to be part of the gang. Thanks so much to Richard Bonomo for the thoughtful I would recommend a stay at the Country Springs Hotel to anyone going to the Milwaukee area for a weekend or even just an overnight. Coppers Pub has a unique European-like atmosphere, great food and a huge micro and import beer, wine, and flavored martini selection. The indoor waterpark with its twisting slides and indoor-outdoor hot tub is almost as good as any in the Dells, and the rooms have a classy home-like look, are very spacious and comfortable.
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