You Never Know Who You're Going to Run Into?

My brother came to visit his new girlfriend who happens to live 4 hours north of us so we met in the middle at Madison, Wisconsin.






What a fun town.

I had no idea.
It just so happened to be the day before the ASU sun devils were playing those pesky badgers.
My brother, his gal pal and I walked to this cool lake which is near the UoW campus.
Lil brother asked a young man that was standing on the pier if he knew what the name of the lake was.
stranger - "no just visiting"
I noticed he was wearing an ASU baseball cap so I had to mention,
"Hey my son goes there and we used to live in Mesa"
stranger -"Oh really where at?"
Me -" McKellips and Lindsey"
stranger - "I went to H.S. on Lindsey."
Me "Did you go to Mt. View?"
stranger -"Yeah graduated 2004"
Me -"My daughter graduated that year. Do you know her? Emily Allred?. My son Jonathan graduated the year before."

Stranger - "no, I was on cross country and track my senior year."
Me- "So were my kids, are you sure you don't them? So you know Coach Sawyer? What's your name?
"Sheldon?"
Sheldon - " Yea I know Sawyer but don't know your kids, maybe my younger sister knows them."
Then I start thinking, hey why is he still in college if he graduated in 04
Me- "Are you LDS?"
Sheldon - "yea" looking at me strangely "served in Canada"
Me -As I show him my CTR ring (like it's some type of secret agent code ring or something)
"I'm LDS too. What brings you out here?"

Sheldon - "Every year we pick a road game to support our Sun devils and this year it was Madison."

He couldn't have picked a better weekend!!

Walked State Street and found a brat place for lunch along with a boatload of maroon and gold old people. (haha I'm not old)
I love my brother and his girlfriend seems just right for him. So great to see him, when he lives so far away.


(sorry I don't have a pic of Sheldon - that would have just been creepy, Molly already told me I'm weird for talking to strangers)

Molly really did have fun, just didn't want her pic taken

Navy Pier 2008

I love Chicago!!! I think it is such a great city. On Labor Day the four of us rode the train down and back for nine bucks. Can't beat that. We then grabbed a taxi which cost more than our 50 mile train trip, but it was worth it cuz the free trolleys were packed. We headed over to Navy Pier and rented a quad carriage bike thingey. We had a blast riding down the trail to a beach. At first I sat behind Molly and sometimes she would go so fast I couldn't keep up with her, so I just put my feet up and enjoyed the ride. It was an absolute beautiful day in Chicago. Blue skies, low humidity. Lots of people swimming in Lake Michigan, beach volleyball. I didn't want to leave.
Back at Navy Pier we ate lunch outside at Bubba Gump Shrimp and watched the dancing cop directing traffic. He was very entertaining. Then the girls rode on the huge ferris wheel. If I had know it only went once around, I would have gone. Next time.. I love adventures in Chicago.