Doesn’t it seem like you can go for weeks or even months with nothing specific to have to do, and then bam..you’ve got several places to be in at the same time. So it was this weekend! I didn’t really want to leave town anyway, because we were about to leave for a week and a half on a trip to San Francisco and I had preparations to make. But it was the weekend of my nephew’s 13th birthday and also my 25-year class reunion…both in Wisconsin, but not in the same spot. After talking to my Mom and uncle, who happened to run into a classmate of mine, I decided maybe I would try to go. After all, this was the quarter-century reunion, and I hadn’t been to one since the 10-year.
I talked to Jeff about it. It was nice of him to offer to go along, but I knew he’d be pretty miserable at the reunion, so we agreed I should just zip off on the trip alone. I was able to take Friday afternoon off and drive from work around 1:00, putting me in Brookfield right around 6:30. It turned out to be a pretty easy drive, thanks to my Sirius Satellite Radio and the Big 80’s channel :) After all, it’s almost all interstate, and I was heading south on a Friday afternoon.
I arrived to find my nephews playing outside with friends that were over to celebrate Russell’s birthday. They played for a while while I caught up with Ken and Ellen. Later in the evening I made a trip to Best Buy in hopes of finding a present for Russell (procrastinate much???). No luck there, but I did find a wireless router as a belated birthday present for Ken. We got that set up so he now has wireless, and even managed to get the Nintendo Wii hooked up to the Internet. Now maybe I can try playing online with them. I brought my Wii-mote along, so Ken and I enjoyed playing games for a good chunk of the evening. We had a fun time (and the vodka didn’t hurt either).