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Winter Classic

The Winter Classic. Red Wings vs Blackhawks. January 1, 2009. Noon at Wrigley Field.

talk about cool... and i don't mean cold, although it was rather chilly.

Sharon and I were dressed for it. Prepared for the cold. after all we had been to sub-zero Lambeau Field so we knew how to dress.

We got down around Wrigley about 10:00 am to check-out the pre-game Fan Fest. it was packed. people all over the place. The fan fest was nice, simple but nice. a few, or several trailers selling Winter Classic gear were mostly sold out. There was a band playing all sorts of cover music. Hockey jerseys and hockey sticks were all over the place.

Inside Wrigley almost all signs of baseball were taken down and replaced with hockey or Winter Classic.

Hockey players were even trying to warm-up in the concourse area of Wrigley field.

A few pictures from the actual game. the first period was great. won't comment on the second two.

Happy New Year!

Ok before I cover Christmas and all that fun stuff from the last couple of weeks I have to talk about yesterday. Ice Skating on Wrigley field. yes. Ice Skating on Wrigley field. Wrigley Field hosted the Winter Classic game on January 1st. Red Wings vs Blackhawks. I'll get to the game later but what do you do with an ice rink that's constructed for one game? open it to the neighbors. It was awesome. Had one hour to skate. I hadn't skated in two years. the first 25 minutes something hurt. my feet, my legs, my ankles. after that i either went numb or it went away. I'm not sure. It doesn't matter, pain or no pain I was ice skating on Wrigley Field.

Very Cool!

Midwest Recruiting

Merry Christmas!

from KPMG's Midwest Recruiting Group

(plus a couple extras)

but thanks....

A few pictures from the northwoods winter wonderland and the trip up.

"Don, have you been noticing funny looks from people in the cars passing us?
"No, I haven't. i wonder why they would look at us funny."

but thanks....

Happy Thanksgiving!

one week from Thursday is Thanksgiving. I was listening to a radio station the other day and they were referring to Thanksgiving as the "forgotten holiday." They said people take down their Halloween decorations and hang up the Christmas ones. Thinking back over the past week I was thinking about the errands I was running. Most of the stores had their Halloween decorations on sale and right next to it was a few Thanksgiving things with the Christmas decorations taking over most of the store. The Thanksgiving stuff really was pushed to the side and if you weren't looking for it you could easily miss it. Walking around downtown, Christmas decorations are going up. This weekend is the Festival of Lights parade, basically a start of Christmas celebration. Christmas music has started taking over the airwaves. Now I did learn over the weekend that Thanksgiving was not the peaceful happy-go-lucky dinner between the Pilgrims and Indians that we were taught in school. We've come along way from 1621 to be truly thankful for what we have. Don't let Thanksgiving become the "forgotten holiday". We have a lot to be thankful for these days.

I'm thankful for my family and their health, my friends, my job, the time i can spend with other people, and my church.

What are you thankful for?

Halloween

Friday night my mom threw quite the Halloween bash for the grandsons. Anders was a Minnesota Viking football player and Axel was Tigger.

For dinner we ate mummy dogs and ghost jell-o along with other boring food like green beans.

The boys especially enjoyed eating the mummy dogs.

The dinner ended, after a piece of candy for each boy, with Anders coming over to Axel for a hug and counted to 10 together. Aren't they great brothers?

Winter wonderland

Monday morning i woke up and looked outside. This is what greeted me.

Ok I was in Northern Wisconsin for the weekend but still it's October and I was joking when I said i was hoping to get snowed in over the weekend.