We trucked it down to Madison to watch Chris graduate but wound up eating a lot of food, swimming in the hotel and leaving early due to a nasty winter storm that made for an exciting trip home. On the way down, we side-tracked it over to Wisconsin Dells to meet with my (James') parents. We ate a the IHOP in the Dells. It had no heat that day and everyone had their breakfast in coats. Afterwards, Gpa Maurer gave us a tour of the Kalahari's newest edition, the FUNLAND! It has lazer tag, a kickin' obstacle course, climbing wall, indoor go carts, bowling alley and much much more. Then we headed to the Madison Goodwill store that has provided us with many a great game, secondhand. This trip we left with a copy of Dragonology which turned out to be quite good. It wound up matching books that the boys received at Christmas from Aunt Caryn.
Saturday night the storm started hitting but it didn't keep us from getting our fill at TGIF with the Seiler's. After dinner we headed to the pool where Liam proceeded to remove the underwater lighting. This brought in the maintenance staff who drained the pool 12 inches to re-install the lighting. All-in-all we still got enough water time for everyone. Then we hit the room for movies and pizzas.
Sunday morning Jen called mom to find out if they were coming. "It's not worth dying for she says, as a major winter storm is entering our area." Rather than stay in Mad-Town all day and drive home in the storm that night, we decided we'd have brunch with Chris and head out ourselves. We hit the OCB (great selection Don!) and got our fill. Two hours later we stopped at Bonde's and grabbed Kate from Don's car to take her home. It took another hour to get to the Vater House as we got stuck in three huge drifts in the truck that we had to dig ourselves out of. The Vibe would've been screwed. As it was, we still didn't make it because their was a 6 foot high, 30 foot long drift at the intersection of Bob's Road (Centerville Rd) and Cty X. Just as I was about to begin trying to knock down enough of it to get past one side, the plow came through (the big plow with the huge blade on it.) We backed into the nearest drive and watched as it took the plow four full speed runs to move the drift out of the way. We followed the plow the rest of the way to the Vater's and stayed there until later in the evening when we made the rest of the trip home. The truck got us there but has taken a beating and is still not running very well. It needs some serious warm weather but that's not going to happen anytime soon.
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