I hope my readers had a good weekend. Friday after work
Travalon and I were so tired that we stayed in the house and ordered a pizza –
we were too tired to cook! Saturday we got up, and I made coffee that tasted
amazing to both of us, but I have no idea why it would be so much better than
our usual weekday coffee: same grounds, same water, same coffee maker, same
cream. Maybe it was just because we could sip it at a relaxed pace while
lounging in our reclining chairs? Then we went for a short hike at Castle Creek
Conservancy, a surprisingly large wilderness area in Waunakee. The name is a
puzzle, because the creek that flows through it is Six Mile Creek, not Castle
Creek.
Then we drove separately to Milwaukee, because I was going
to meet Tiffy to go to the International Festival, and when Travalon heard that’s
what we were doing, he begged to come along because they have chicken paprikash
there. (Looks like it is well past time for me to learn how to make this dish!)
There were all kinds of food stands there, including the Slovak one making the
chicken paprikash, and a Serbian one with desserts that are the same as
Croatian desserts. I ate way too much! Then we watched dancing from all over
the world, and the Ukrainian dancing is very athletic, but the Lithuanian
dancing made me laugh because the music sounded like a chicken was singing
along in parts. Not sure what kind of instrument that was… Travalon had a Steak
Night with the guys, so he took off, and when Tiffy and I had watched enough
dancing, we walked back to the car and passed Christmas lights we hadn’t seen
during the day. It was a display you drive through, and they don’t advertise
the price, so we didn’t find out how incredibly overpriced it was until we were
in line and it was hard to turn back. The big “sell” was that there was music
that went along with the display, but the radio station barely came in, so we
just turned it off and sang Christmas carols ourselves. Then Tiffy suggested we
go to the Hawaiian restaurant in Wauwatosa for dinner, where we had raw tuna
and guava cake. It’s a little shop too, so I bought Kona coffee, macadamia
nuts, and another Hawaiian shirt. What a fun day!
Yesterday Rich, Travalon, and I went to Crema Café for
brunch, but they did not make as impressive a cup of hot cocoa for Rich as they
had that time we went for Pa Hat’s birthday. It had been a beautiful day, but
of course it cooled off by the time Travalon and I got to Cherokee Marsh for a
hike, and then it started to rain on us. I went to a Baroque music concert, and
Travalon went to see the new movie about the Battle of Midway. We watched the
Packers game, but every time the Packers got some momentum, the refs called a
ticky-tacky foul on them. Seriously, every first down was getting called back,
and every time they stopped the 49ers on third down, there was some
questionable call so the Niners got a fresh set of downs. The Pack did hurt
themselves with a huge turnover early and the offense getting nothing started
for the first half, although the defense did a pretty decent job for most of
the game until they were just too worn out to stop anything. Once the score was
really lopsided, the advertisers must have told the refs to lay off, because
then it was like a switch flipped, and they stopped calling them on the Pack
and even called a couple on the Niners. I am trying not to be cynical about it,
but everyone noticed – the Lions fans on social media were all, “How does it
feel?” Sometimes it does seem like they decide which teams are going to win,
which was unnecessary last night because the Packers wouldn’t have won anyway,
but really? Did they have to make it that hard for them?
Famous Hat
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