11.14.09

This chica is celebrating the big 3-0 in a couple weeks, so in celebration her husband, Mike, threw her a surprise birthday/Badger tailgate celebration. A fine way to ring in one's 30s if I do say so myself. We had so much fun! Sometimes I really do love this town.

I am breaking the rules for only the second time this year and include 2 pictures for this day...because on our way downtown, we stopped to get gas and witnessed a truck blow up! We saw the small fire starting up under the truck, then watched it go up in flames, then the gas tank blew up and the ground literally shook. Before it was completely in flames there was a guy up in that crane and jumped out of it to escape the flames. It was a really intense 5 minutes until the firefighters showed up and made it all better.

10.31.09

I headed downtown right before game time on Saturday in hopes of getting a great pic showing how many people come out for the Badger games and all the red you would see if you were around Regent Street on a game day.

So here's the thing. I got some pics. I took some looking down Regent where there are people walking toward the games for blocks...I got some of the crowds of people waiting to get into Camp Randall...and I got a few looking down a block of tailgaters. None of them did anything for me though except the one above...which does not show the scope of Badger Saturdays at all. I need to work on backing up off the subject and showing some context. How fun is this little dunebuggy though?? I love Badger Saturdays...

10.3.09

I realized last week that this city o' mine and its recognizable landmarks have not made their way in this little project. So I am making it my mission to get out on the weekends (because of the lack of light after work!) and take pics of those things we Madisonians love so much about our city. This may be difficult, seeing as though weekends at home have been few and far between as of late, but I'll try my best. I have a few of the obvious ones in mind already, but I welcome any suggestions!!

I decided that this flower display (display?) would be first to be photographed since I am sure the flowers won't be around much longer. It might not seem that interesting or unique, but I always like seeing it when I am driving downtown.

4.18.09

We went to the UW Varsity Band concert Saturday night. We have been going to this concert every year for as long as we have been together and it is always so much fun! I look forward to it every year.

Other than playing all the standard 5th Quarter songs, they have special guests who play with the band, as well as medleys of popular music and musicals. My favorite this year was the Jesus Christ Superstar breakdown.

And btw, this isn't just a sit and listen type thing - there are pyrotechnics, streamers, confetti, trapeze type acrobatics. It's big time. You should probably do yourself a favor and go next year.