August 6, 2006

• I'm back!

  
  

  I'm refreshed, revitalized and thinner!

  
  

  What a wonderful trip.

  
  

  I'll probably spread this out over a few days, but hit some highlights now.

  
  

  Traffic through Chicago STINKS, I don't care when you go through.

  
  

  Traffic through Milwaukee isn't much better.  I was listening to Wadaya know on NPR on my drive home today and even a guest on that show (who had just written a book on his car trip across America) commented on how all the highways in Milwaukee were torn up.  What's with that?

  
  

  Driving north past Green Bay was fine.  I did a lot of driving and riding this past week.  Temperatures ranged from 100 down to the 60's on Wednesday night, when the cool front went through.

  
  

  I got a lot of great shopping buys.  What fun is that!  And ate a lot of food food, even if it didn't involve cheese or sugar!  I did cheat - I ate fudge.  But that was my only slip-up so I think I did great!

  
  

  I scrapbooked 18 pages, front and back.  That's 36 individual pages!  I did our trip to Hawaii all the way through Kaden's birth.  Still have more to do to catch up, but this was a major head start!

  
  

  We watched 6 movies:  Monster-in-Law (hysterical), How to Lose a Guy in 10 days (Sue had never seen that one), Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ladies in Lavender, The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio (wonderful), and I don't remember the last one.  Sue?????  Help me out.  I think it was the first one we watched.

  
  

  Edit:    Because of Winn Dixie  :  An absolutely adorable movie.

  
  

  We went to a festival in Menomonee, Mi (Did I get the name of the town right).  Went out to one really great sit-down-restaurant right on Lake Michigan, at at a lot of other good places, shopped, spent money, did a ceremonial burning of a ghastly wall hanging that came with the cottage, (that will be a later blog) and generally had a blast.

  
  

  And on the way home, we met mimiwi and her husband for brunch!

  
  

   

  
  

  Then I drove to the western Chicago suburbs and heard the senior vocal recital of the daughter of one of my mom's club buddies.

  
  

  I got home this afternoon, but after first going out to brunch with Mary S, another of my mom's club friends.

  
  

  Then I got home and back to the grind.  I've got laundry (stinky) in the wash and will read you guys later.

  
  

  There's no place like home, but vacations are wonderful once in a while!

  
  

   

  
  

   Why won't xanga let me include my uploaded pictures yesterday and today?  That's why no photos mom.  I can't get them on this!

  
  

   

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