Wisconsin Weekend

I just got back from spending the weekend in Wisconsin. I alternated between visiting my friends Chris and Shannon in Madison and Holly in Milwaukee. Despite a lack of grandiose plans (we didn't climb any mountains or swim across any oceans) the weekend was still a lot of fun. Chris and Shannon are the type of friends that are fun to hang around even when we aren't doing much of anything. We did get out for a couple of short walks at Parfrey Glen and Natural Bridge State Park, played several hands of cards, ate good food (God Bless the Mammoth Muffins), watched Transporter 2 (laughably implausible but still entertaining) and went to the Milwaukee County Zoo.



Holly has been fighting a cold for the last week or so and was losing the battle on Saturday night. We cancelled our plans for Saturday night so that she could get some much needed R&R. By Sunday she was feeling better and we went to watch several of her friends play volleyball and then joined them for dinner afterwards. It was a lot of fun to finally meet a bunch of the people that I've heard her talking about for the last couple of months. I imagine that her friends had heard a thing or two about me as well and I could feel myself being silently judged (one her friends, Angie, wasn't so silent), but I think that I made a good impression... or at least good enough :)

It was also kind of cool to see Holly's "thing". Wow, that sounds kind of dirty when you read it the wrong way :) By her "thing" I mean league volleyball. Even though she wasn't playing on Sunday night, I still got a nice introduction to the atmosphere, the sport and the people. Now I understand a little better what it is that she does with her life several nights a week. There are much worse things that you could do with your life; it looked like a lot of fun. Hopefully the next time that I am in town I will actually be able to see her play.