Past Week Recap

Things have been real busy this past week, so here's a quick recap. Last Friday Debbie, Elliana, and I went up to Madison in the evening. Debbie needed some new running shoes so she went to get fitted. They didn't have what she was looking for unfortunately. Then we went to Whole Food's where we picked up some olive oil that Debbie really likes, Willie Street Coop which is another organic type food store where we picked up some sushi quality salmon, and Trader Joe's grocery store where we picked up some real good indian dinners, avacado, cucumber, and real crab for the sushi, and a few other things. Then we headed home and watched Night at the Museum 2.

Let me just say that we really enjoyed Night at the Musuem 2. The writing was good (as far as a slapstick comedy goes), Ben Stiller and Owen Wilsom were good (although better in the first movie), and the guy who played the Blue Raja in Mystery Men played a similar role this time as a pharoah . It also had one of the funnies dialogs I've seen in a long time between Ben Stiller and Jonah Hill you can see here

Saturday night Rene and Shane came over, and I made Sushi. I'd prepared the rice ahead of time because it takes awhile to rinse the rice thoroughly, cook it, prepare the rice vinegar and sugar, mix, and let it cool. I made california roll with real crab that Debbie really liked. Also made Salmon roll, Philly Roll, and Salmon Nigiri . Rene wasn't a fan, Shane thought the Salmon was decent. Me, I was in Salmon Nirvana.

Sunday morning we drove down to Chicago with Rene, Shane, Don, and Judy where we picked up Laura and Aaron who were returning from Ethiopia with their son Yedidiah. It was really great to be there when they arrived, and Yedidiah was very happy and smiling, and not really fussy at all, considering all the new faces, the long trip, and jetlag.

When we got back to Brodhead, Doug and Jenny and their family as well as Aaron's family were their waiting for us to meet Yedidiah. It was a great time and lots of pictures were taken. Then we watched football, and later that night I headed to Stoughton while Debbie stayed in Brodhead. I had a big week and needed to get up early Monday to get a jump on the week.