A few highlights from the weekend!

Friday

• A walk on the beach.
• The cats being cute before we left.
• Burger King for lunch with Steven. Weird highlight, right? I just love that I can get a vegan burger at Burger King. Yum.
• Seeing the RBG mural in Dubuque.
• Arriving to Iowa and seeing my family! We went there for an early birthday celebration for my snister.
• Vegan cupcakes.
• My snister liking the birthday presents we got her.

Saturday

• A run with Dad while he rode his bike.
• Painting a rock for the fly-in I forgot was going to happen.
• Going to Farmers Market and making a funny Reel with snis (at a store near Farmers Market).
• Finding fun gifts to send friends.
• The fly-in at Abel Island. I had completely forgotten it was this weekend! There is a landing strip at the island next to the one my family has cabins on, and they do an annual “fly-in” where over 20 planes fly in, then fly out, in a period of 3 hours. It was really fun to see so many planes fly in, and to look at them up close after they were parked!
• Going to the beach on Christina (aka snister) and Will’s new boat! They bought a deck boat last week, and it was so fun to ride in and take to the beach!
• Trying to make a Reel at the beach and failing over and over because the rock kept dropping in the water. Ha. Ha ha ha. Dad was trying to help me and I really appreciate that! (And the rock was perfectly fine after being dropped so much – yay for sealant!)
• Relaxing at the beach for a long time.
• All the amazing snacks Snis brought for the beach (and all the amazing food she prepped for the weekend).
• Playing What Do You Meme? and laughing so hard I was crying.

Sunday

• Eating vehicle shaped waffles for breakfast (Snis had a vehicle shaped waffle maker on her wishlist and obviously I had to get that for her!).
• Kayaking with Christina and William on the river. There’s a calm little patch of the river right by the island ramp that was perfect for kayaking!
• Burgers and hot dogs for lunch.
• Stopping at a fun gift shop (that has two cats that live there!!!) on the way out of town (and hiding a rock there). I tried to be fast since we were headed out but I need to go back and take more time looking at everything – the shop is three stories!!! I just rushed through.
• Seeing lots of horses and buggies on our drive home.
• Seeing the cats when we got home.

Lowlights

• Traffic on the way home. We decided to go a completely different route because of a detour on our old route, and the new route took us through Madison and Milwaukee and yucko – there was heavy Sunday traffic, with people driving really crazy!