With annual traditions, like the Sts. Peter and Paul Fall Festival, I
feel like I’m a broken record. But I did
so much more this weekend than usual.
Saturday morning, I met Mom and Aunt Bev in Eau Claire. We went to my cousin’s baby shower. She is due Sunday, she was joking with the
host that she wasn’t going to make it to the shower, but she was there.
After that we drove to Independence and dropped off my stuff and headed
to Arcadia to Mike’s house. We went to
the Ashley for the Arts at the Memorial Park in Arcadia. Every year Ashley
Furniture puts on this event as a fundraiser for various charities. It is quite a big deal. Anyways we went to the 3:30 performance of
the Memories. They were good. They have
been preforming in the area for over 40 years! After that we went to Mike’s
house for a grill out. My cousin, Paula
and her boyfriend Tom came by. After
that we went to the 7:30 performance of Matt Nathanson. I’m not exactly sure who he is, I guess he is
famous or something. I didn’t really
enjoy that so much so I took Shelly, Mike’s friend, for a walk down Soldiers’
Walk. I love walking down this timeline
of historic events. I showed her the sculptures for all the wars and the beam
from the World Trade Center. It was a
nice getaway. We made it back for the
end of the concert and then the fireworks.
For such a small town, they were really amazing.
Sunday morning started our normal tradition. Go to church to drop off
mom’s pies and cakes and turn in her tickets. I’m not sure the last time she
did this herself! LOL! I got my verbal
abuse from Becky Maule at the cake walk/sucker pull. I know it is in good fun. This year she told
me she dreamt about me all night and then fell out of bed. She blames me for
that. I spent $15 and didn’t win a damn
cake. They rig the game! I got my cheese coffee cake and we turned in
mom’s raffle tickets. Something out of
the norm for us, we went to the Polka Mass on Sunday morning. It was nice, as nice as can be. After church we had Chicken and JoJos from
East End Bar. It was good but I really wish that we had the dinner at church.
Smelling the meatballs cooking in the church basement during Mass was hard to
handle. :(
After lunch Mom, Bev and I went back up to church for Bingo. We didn’t
win of course. Never do! We left after Bingo so Mom and Betty Jane could go to
Aunt Vina’s wake at the funeral home.
Bev and I went to Anna’s house to get a picture of Mickey as the “wheelchair
super hero.” So during Bingo I get a
random phone call from our niece Beth. She is doing some scavenger hunt thing
and need a “wheelchair super hero” in purple and white with a “G.” I told Eric
he was crazy if I was going to do that.
But I told Mom and she said that Mickey would love to do it. So here he
is:
After picking up Mom and Betty Jane at the funeral home we went back to
the Festival for the polka music. Bev
and I stayed about an hour and then we headed home. We stopped at Culver’s for
a burger and I dropped her off and made my way back home. It was a nice, busy weekend.
So where was Eric you ask? Well
he was in Mankato working with DJ on his paper.
