It was Mom & Dad's annual fall football weekend in Ann Arbor. The festivities started with a cancellation, Friday morning, of Habitat building activities that opened up the day for a lunch at Zingerman's (#51 Bob & Roz's Fiesta, decent but not as peppery and zingy as you might expect... #74 Dave's Open Road still in the lead). In the afternoon, they stopped at the SAE club car show - which turned out to be something of a joke - while I headed north to NAME to catch up with the President of SNAME: Webb Institute Dean Roger Compton.
Jill and the Dean were in town for the whole weekend, as it turned out, and didn't have dinner plans in Ann Arbor so we combined dinner with parents with dinner with Mr. & Mrs. The Dean. Jenelle hosted and cooked up one heck of an awesome spanikopita, spinach salad with hot bacon dressing, and we really had a great time.
Saturday started and ended with rain; the game was cold and wet and windy but still fun and relatively comfortable since we'd prepared for the onslaught. Michigan proved fickle and tried just hard enough to win; we celebrated with a relocated UMBSA tailgate at the bus, which was so cold that we ate a single plate of Mexican food and were on our way. Back at home we talked wedding stuff, lazed around, had a bratwurst dinner with key lime pie, had a very mini-birthday celebration, and watched Michigan's less-than-punishing power play go 0-11 in a 3-2 loss to Northeastern.
Sunday (fall baaaaaack) was mostly about Angelo's, braving the line for Angelo's, and then a lazy afternoon. They went to Royal Shakespeare Company's Julius Caesar while we read for school. They left in the early evening, Jenelle went home, and I had a team meeting... another weekend coming to a screetching halt as reality sets back in on Sunday in the PM.
Sunday, October 29, 2006