Happy Year of the Rat!

I hope my readers had a good weekend. Travalon and I didn't go anywhere on Friday because of the snow; he fried some tilapia in a pan (he is the BEST at cooking fish!), and then we danced around to the Soul Train playlist on Spotify. Saturday morning it was still snowy, so we spent the morning at home. When the weather had cleared up somewhat, we went downtown to a Chinese restaurant for lunch to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Happy Year of the Rat, everyone! We shopped a little on State Street and walked up to the Capitol, then we went to Matcha Tea for Lunar New Year treats, and the owner gave us a free chai.

In the afternoon Travalon went to visit his mother and then hang out with his old buddy, while I hung out with Hardingfele before our gig. We worked on the puzzle a little, but without a big piece of cardboard to put it on, it doesn't line up right. We went to Athens Gyros for a bite to eat before our gig, which was a dance at Waunakee High School. It was a fundraiser for the school orchestra, because they are going to Scotland. The teenagers danced enthusiastically for a little over an hour, then they lost interest or energy, it was hard to say which. We were supposed to play for two hours, but the organizer decided to cut things short so we got to go home early. I was sound asleep when Travalon came home and didn't hear him come in.

This morning a bunch of us went to brunch at Inn on the Park, and I was the only woman. Afterwards Rich gave us a big piece of cardboard to do our puzzle on. While Travalon caught up on sleep, I prayed with Rosie the Rosary, which is what he has dubbed the big cuddly rosary Ma Hat made. It's fun to have a rosary you can snuggle while you pray it! Then we went out to Sauk, where we saw one eagle flying around and two sitting in a tree down at the dam. We went to Wollersheim for Travalon's favorite drink, and we asked if they still had the blue cheese we got at Christmas as part of the gift box for Ma and Pa Hat, since Ma Hat said several times that it was the best blue cheese they had ever tried. They didn't have any blue cheese, and the place that makes it was about to close, but we can get it at the co-op. Then we came home and had more fish that Travalon fried in the pan - he cooks it to perfection! We watched Keeping Up Appearances, which we had taped yesterday, and it was the first episode ever. We just love that show. So it was a quiet, relaxing weekend for the two of us.

Famous Hat