Sorry that I didn’t blog yesterday – we spent the evening
watching a biopic of Elton John that was surprisingly engrossing even though it
had these weird fantasy sequences where he would burst into song and people
around him would dance. Friday we went to Adult Swim at the Children’s Museum,
since I had won tickets courtesy of Great Dane Brewing. We were pretty much the
only Gen Xers there – even the people working at the event were all
Millennials. We also didn’t have any Hogwarts paraphernalia on; the theme
was Harry Potter. I was surprised at how elaborate some people’s costumes were.
We did enjoy making mandrakes and a tiny vial of “potion” (i.e., glitter), and
the shadow room, where your shadow is set on the wall, is still as cool as I
remembered from when I went there with Tiffy’s nieces many years ago. A lot of
the place basically becomes a nightclub, so it was hard to escape from the loud
music. Most of it was from the 90’s, when the attendees were kids, but just
before we left, they started playing 80’s music. You would think the
Millennials wouldn’t even know that stuff.
Saturday Travalon and I met Rich, Luxuli, and OK Cap for
coffee, then we all (but Rich) went to the annual balalaika orchestra’s
Christmas concert, and then Travalon and I drove to Lake Wisconsin. We went to
the part where you can see the island, I think it’s called Sunset Bay, and we
also went to Sauk and saw some eagles. In the evening I picked up Tiffy, and we
joined some other Slow Food people at a French restaurant called Cadre. Dinner
was at 5, and this was a mile away from First Unitarian, where there was a
Baroque Christmas concert at 7:30. It seemed like a perfect plan… but dinner was
very slow, and then the bill got messed up, so by the time we got out of there,
the concert was half over. Tiffy and I decided to look at Christmas lights
instead, so we went to the house off of Gammon that always has a huge display
coordinated to music, and then we went to Zoo Lights. We got there kind of
late, and the gate was still open, but nobody was at the ticket booth. We
wandered in and looked around, hoping they wouldn’t lock us in. “I can still
hear the Christmas music playing,” I said, “so that seems like a good sign.” We
saw hardly any other people, except a couple of girls who took a photo of us in
front of a tree. We got to see almost the whole display for free (which wasn’t
my intention – the entry fee is for a good cause, the zoo itself) before a
security guard appeared and shooed us toward the exit. Just then he turned off
the music, so it really was time to go.
Sunday after Mass, Travalon and I went to Rich’s house for
brunch, then we drove to Lake Wisconsin to watch the Packers game from the bar
on the bay with the island. You cannot actually see the island from inside the
bar, but you can see some of the bay. The Packers (barely) beat the Bears, then
we went to watch eagles, and we saw three flying by the dam and two on the
island in the river. Then I talked Travalon into driving around to look at
Christmas lights. It’s one of the things I love about this time of year,
besides religious Christmas music (can’t stand the secular stuff) and the free
Holiday Trolley on State Street. Might as well do something beautiful with
these long, long nights!
Famous Hat
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