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Happy New Year 2009
1/04/2009
Happy New Year!!
Christine and I went to Green Bay for a short vacation this past week. We decided to go out for a nice dinner on New Year's Eve at a place called Rivers Bend in Green Bay. We had made reservations several days ahead of time but we still had to wait over an hour to get seated!! They were allowing walk in seating too, so I think that's why they were so backed up. It didn't really bother us much since we didn't have anything else planned for the night and got the opportunity to visit with each other. While we waited we also got to talk to a few nice older women. One of them even gave us a bottle of champagne that they didn't really want. The restaurant offered to buy us drinks because of our long wait but because the dinner we ordered already came with champagne we just decided to get free soda. They probably laughed at that.
I put up some pictures from the dinner and a few from a dinner that we had at my parent's house. It was a fun vacation. You can check out the pictures by clicking here.
On our way back to Rochester on Saturday we ran into some bad weather about 10 miles into Minnesota. There was freezing rain predicted for the area and we happened to hit the very start of it so most people were driving really poorly for the conditions. In about a 45 mile stretch in Minnesota we saw a total of 15 cars in the ditch, including two which were upside down. We also almost saw a tanker truck plow into the back of a sedan which was slowly passing someone in the left lane. Like I said, people were not realizing how slippery it was out. When we got to Christine's house we couldn't even walk up her driveway because we'd just slide back down it. On my way home (10 minute drive), I saw another 3 cars off the road. It was a pretty crazy afternoon.
Christine and I went to Green Bay for a short vacation this past week. We decided to go out for a nice dinner on New Year's Eve at a place called Rivers Bend in Green Bay. We had made reservations several days ahead of time but we still had to wait over an hour to get seated!! They were allowing walk in seating too, so I think that's why they were so backed up. It didn't really bother us much since we didn't have anything else planned for the night and got the opportunity to visit with each other. While we waited we also got to talk to a few nice older women. One of them even gave us a bottle of champagne that they didn't really want. The restaurant offered to buy us drinks because of our long wait but because the dinner we ordered already came with champagne we just decided to get free soda. They probably laughed at that.
I put up some pictures from the dinner and a few from a dinner that we had at my parent's house. It was a fun vacation. You can check out the pictures by clicking here.
On our way back to Rochester on Saturday we ran into some bad weather about 10 miles into Minnesota. There was freezing rain predicted for the area and we happened to hit the very start of it so most people were driving really poorly for the conditions. In about a 45 mile stretch in Minnesota we saw a total of 15 cars in the ditch, including two which were upside down. We also almost saw a tanker truck plow into the back of a sedan which was slowly passing someone in the left lane. Like I said, people were not realizing how slippery it was out. When we got to Christine's house we couldn't even walk up her driveway because we'd just slide back down it. On my way home (10 minute drive), I saw another 3 cars off the road. It was a pretty crazy afternoon.