Busy Weekend

This past weekend was one to remember. We arrived in Hudson late Friday night and went to a great Halloween party at Craig and Jane Davis'. I have one picture to share that should sum up the evening. Brian my friend, I think this look has potential, and his wife Dina was interested in borrowing this "wig" for the weekend. Jeb was dressed as Dracula, (no pictures for the childrens' sake), but he really scared a lot of the men at the party because he looked like a transexual Dracula. He "unofficially" won best costume and we had a great time.

Nicole and I sold our season tickets this year, but we saved one game, and that was Homecoming. We love to hit Starbucks in the morning and then head to the parade. It was a beautiful sunny morning, a perfect day. The parade was fine as usual, we were joined by Ashley and Tom, our favorite nephew Zander, Ally, my brother Andrew and his girlfriend Bri. From the parade we went to the football game which was the Gophers vs. Northwestern. The Gophers were 7-1 heading into this game ranked 20th in the country. Northwestern was unranked, previously ranked 24th and sat at 6-2. It was a slow start for the Gophers who went down early 10-0, but a defensive touchdown sparked the crowd and the Gophers back to 10-7. Then 10-10, then 17-10 Gophers and I thought it was over. Then Northwestern tied it 17-17, and unfortunately for all 54,000 in attendance that day the Gophers threw a late 4th quarter interception returned for a touchdown and sent us home a little broken hearted. We had talked about jinxing the team the week leading up to the game and it looks as if that is what we did. 7-2 is nothing to be ashamed of though, they just put more pressure on themselves the remaining 3 games of the season. We drove by the new stadium and it was exciting to think we will be watching games there next season! Saturday night we went to Jeb and Kaylan's for dinner, and we nursed a few Bloody Mary's, still recovering from the "Friday Night Halloween Massacre". We watched Gopher Hockey there which gave us some redemption with a 3 point weekend over Mankato State or Minnesota State or whatever that school is called.


Sunday was another beautiful day. We ate breakfast at Perkins in River Falls with the Wilson's and stopped at Walgreens (stock symbol WAG) (please buy) to get our flu shots. Jeb took it easy on us and we felt nothing.

Then we participated in a great event at Troy Burne. It was the End of the Year event for all members at TB and it was a great turnout. We played with Jeb and Kaylan, but got to see all of our friends in Troy Burne whom we miss very much. The boys played a "money game" which was skins between Jeb, Jason, Brian, Tom, Matt, and Rick. The ladies just play for pride and they have a lot of that. Somehow I managed to come out with the most skins after shooting an 84. I was 13 over for the day and 9of those strokes came on the par 5's, simply because I drove the ball horribly. I played the other 14 holes in 4 over par. My beautiful wife after not playing for 2 months played her career round at Troy Burne, shooting an 87. This topped all the Boys in the group (except for hubby)! She was very happy and I was very proud of her. That driver of hers showed up to play on Sunday, her putting was awful or she could have shot 82. Next year!!We miss Troy Burne and weekends like this last one remind us why!


It was great to see all our friends and look forward to getting back home the weekend of the 15th.