Fun weekend round-up

Today was a Bears home game, against Detroit, which started at noon. In anticipation of the next home game (not until November 1) which will have a ton of Cleveland fans in attendance, I dragged LL down to the tailgating parking lot an hour earlier than normal....8:30 instead of 9:30. We had about a dozen people show up and it was good fun. Plus the Bears won!! So we tailgated for three hours before and then another two hours afterwards. It made for an exhausting, but fun day.




Pictured here is the Punke clan with myself and LL. Last year the Punke's bought me this cool leather helmet replica of what football players used to play in many decades ago and today I wore it into the game and during the tailgate. At least a half dozen people commented that they thought it was cool and wanted to know where I got it.










The early Sunday wake-up call was especially difficult because we went to a surprise 40th birthday party for an ex-coworker of mine from Morningstar. They held it in Forrest Park at a place called Flavour Cooking School on Madison. There were 5 or 6 couples all around a large cooking table where the chef worked and prepared a salad, a soup, a carrot cake, along with a white bean side for flank steak. Good stuff. There was plenty of fun conversation, catching up, wine and good food. Unfortunately, maybe a little too much wine and too much fun. We got in a bit later than optimal for a well rested day of tailgating, but we managed.

Saturday morning was supposed to be a softball tournament in Kankakee, but it was rain/colded out. It would have been nice to get in some swings before the big tournament in Indianapolis next weekend. There's something like 70 teams going, so it's another one of the big ones.

Time for bed!! I'm exhausted.