I hope my readers had a good weekend. Thursday evening I met
up with Handy Woman for dinner, then Travalon and I watched the sunset at
Tenney Park. Friday I drove out to Spring Green for the outdoor theater again,
this time to watch Measure for Measure,
a surprisingly relevant Shakespeare play that foresaw the “Me Too” movement
hundreds of years ago. The Dairyman’s Daughter’s sister (the Dairyman’s Other
Daughter?) told me a great story as we waited for the play to start: one day
she had to sneak her little dog into daily Mass, so she sat unobtrusively in
the back… and then a bat started flying around and freaking everyone out, so it
panicked and landed right next to her. So much for secrecy! All the little old
ladies were atwitter that there was not just a bat but a dog in church. So she
snuck out as soon as Mass was over, and then the priest told her everyone
thought she bolted because the bat had bitten her! He did advise her not to
bring the dog back anytime soon.
Saturday morning the Rosary Ladies got together for the
first time in forever, except for Jilly Moose, who informed us she couldn’t be
there because she was going to be a “Godmooser.” Congratulations to Jilly
Moose! Then Travalon and I drove to East Troy to visit their railroad museum
and take a trolley ride. Unfortunately we did not get to go on the cute little
trolleys, but that means we got to take pictures of them as we passed on the
big electric train. We even got to go to the garage where they had several more
cute trolleys. Travalon’s friend asked if we wanted to go on a boat ride, and
he took us out on Pewaukee Lake on his speedboat. Was that ever fun! We stopped
for dinner at a lakeside restaurant, and he was annoyed at the rude way another
boat had tied up to the pier, barely leaving him any room. We ordered a pizza
with tons of stuff on one half for him and me, and a plainer half for Travalon,
and soon they brought a pizza for “John.” We said we weren’t John, but when the
waiter described the pizza, it was ours. However, after we had eaten almost the
whole thing, it turned out it was for the other people sitting out on the
balcony – can you believe they ordered virtually the same pizza we did? At
first we felt really bad, but then we realized they were the ones who parked
their boat like such jerks, so I guess it was just karma. When our pizza came,
they didn’t want it because it had green peppers (which we forgot about when we
ate the wrong pizza), so the waiter gave us that pizza too. Then we headed out
onto the lake, pink from the sunset, and boated around until after dark. Then
Travalon and I went to hear a steel drum band on the Union Terrace. They played
lots of wonderful songs – I made a short video of them playing “September” that
just makes me so happy to watch over and over. In case you are wondering what
Earth, Wind and Fire sounds like on steel drums, I will post it at some point.
Travalon and I even danced on a little pier to their version of “Africa” by
Toto! What a fantastic day!
Yesterday the air conditioning wasn’t working at church, so
the priest made sure Mass was very short. Travalon and I used the extra time to
take a boat ride, and we actually got pulled over by the boat police, who
warned us that the lettering on our boat was wrong. How weird that we have been
boating for four summers and this is the first they had noticed it! I met
Hockey Girl for lunch, then Travalon and I came to campus for a carillon
concert. He actually enjoyed it, because it is outside and there is no pressure
to be an attentive audience member. Plus, bells – who doesn’t like bells? After
that we drove to Crystal Lake campground and swam at their beach. They have
lots of inflatable toys, and the slide was covered with tweens, but Travalon
and I managed to gracelessly pull ourselves onto the thing that looks like a
giant Danish. Even the tweens were ignoring the “Saturn,” but we did see one
very fit adult guy scramble up to the top of it and then fall back into the
water. We also swam in the pool, and then we got out and watched the sunset.
Finally we headed home, and guess what we had for dinner? Leftover pizza! What
an amazing weekend.
Famous Hat
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