Maryanne and I had some company this weekend; our friends Adam and Sammie and Barret and Jenny came for a visit Saturday morning and stayed until Sunday afternoon. It was a pleasant weekend; next time some kind of itinerary would be in order, though. The weather was beautiful Saturday. We had lunch at Monty's Blue Plate Diner, then decided to check out the Celebrate Madison festival at the Monona Terrace. It seemed a bit disorganized, but we got to try some bocce. As were were leaving a bunch of demonstrators showed up, carrying signs about peace. We discovered they were a bunch of Socialists. Socialism might look good on paper, but it doesn't work too well, so while they certainly had the right to peacably demonstrate, I also didn't want to stay and listen to it.
Afterwards we decided to head to State Street. The parking ramp was insane, as the downtown area was inundated with students finishing their semester, many of which were visibly drunk. We were able to spend some time on the Memorial Union Terrace eating ice cream. We later picked up some Papa Murphy's pizzas for dinner, and I unfortunately burned the crust on one of them. We spent the evening playing Trivial Pursuit.
Sunday started off with snow, but had melted by the time we finished breakfast. Everyone departed sometime in the early afternoon, leaving Maryanne and me some time to load up my truck, and her parents' car, and take some boxes over to our new house.
