Vacation Recap

We got home on Tuesday, but I haven't had much chance to update. We left for Milwaukee on Sunday afternoon. Didn't do anything, but go out to a Mexican restaurant for dinner. It was all right, but nothing special. But I would guess they don't have as big of a Mexican population as we do in Chicagoland. On Sunday, we headed over to the Wisconsin State Fair and spent the entire day walking around. Unfortunately, the cow barn was being changed over and there were very few cows there that day. One of our reasons for going to the fair was to see the Michael J. Smith concert, a contemporary Christian singer. It was pretty good; but I have to say I prefer Steven Curtis Chapman's music anyday. It was a free concert or at least sitting in the grandstand was. Actually, I'd rather be sitting in the grandstand than on the chairs in front of the stage, which you had to pay to be seated there. On Tuesday, we headed over to the Milwaukee Zoo for more walking around. I think we saw just as many or more cows there on the farm. After a few hours. we headed torwards home.

By the time we got home, Kevin decided to call and check on our lawn mower that was in for repairs. It had been taken in on July 29th, sent to the place where it is fixed in another suburb, maybe 40 miles away on Wednesday the 2nd and fixed there the following day, but they didn't expect it back to our store until the middle of the week. Good lord, what were they doing, was someone walking it all the way from Melrose Park to Crystal Lake? It shouldn't take that long. Well when he initially called on Tuesday the 8th; they told him they didn't know where it was. Good thing Kevin called; I'd have probably freaked "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON"T KNOW WHERE IT IS?" They told him they would check and give him a call back . After several hours they did not call back, but Kevin called again and someone else told him to call in the morning that it was probably on the truck being delivered. On Thursday morning, he went over to Sears to check onb it and sure enough, they got it in. Boy, I bet the neighbors are glad we were finally able to cut our grass. It needed it, when the mower was 1st taken in for repairs. Kevin said it still wasn't running that great, but I reminded him how long the grass was. He'll probably mow again over the weekend and hopefully, it will be running normal since the grass won't be so overgrown.

Today, we saw the movie, "Barrnyard". Yes, there were cows in it! I found this theatre a little west of us charges only $3 for the matinee shows and $5 for the evening shows. So both of us saw the movie in the afternoon for less than it would have cost even one of us to see it in the evening and possibly even a matinee anywhere else near here. I'm sure in a few years from now with more and more of this county being built up, the movie prices will be about the same as any other 1st run movie theatre in the Chicago burbs, but right now it is not really considered the suburbs, although Metra (the passenger trains to Chicago) stop in this town.

I have lots of pictures to post, but I'll get some up tomorrow. I just want to watch some of "The O.C." disc I have and then go to bed.