Wild Wild (Mid)West

Pete went on his first plane trip this weekend!  My mom, sister, Pete and I flew to WI on Thursday to visit my brother and his family.  Here’s the little man waiting for takeoff with Kris:

Pete was so good on the flight.  He was his typical happy-go-lucky self and entertained everyone sitting behind us.  Several of the people on our flight Thursday were on our flight home Sunday and when one couple spotted him, they exclaimed “Peter!!  Oh my gosh, I think you grew since Thursday!”  He rewarded them with a big smile.  Pete was fascinated looking out the window of the plane; it was adorable.

We had a pretty busy weekend, but a lot of fun. We spent Friday at the house with the Reece and Lena while Quinn was at school and Tim and Jenny were at work:

We tortured poor Pete with Lena’s new headband … he was very skeptical at first, but warmed up to it rather quickly.  He made a pretty cute girl and will someday hate us (me) for this:

Saturday was a perfect fall day so we went downtown for lunch to State Street Brats (a top ten college sports bar, according to Playboy Magazine). There was a Badgers game, so the place was packed.  The people of WI really do love their football and we saw some pretty funny Brett Favre t-shirts.  My favorite is in the collage below!  After lunch, we walked around downtown before going to the UW student union.  It’s pretty amazing.  It overlooks Lake Mendota, so after treating ourselves to ice cream (made by the dairy science majors), we treated ourselves to a pitcher of beer outside on the patio by the water.

Kris and I were eager to check out Super Bike and weren’t disappointed. We even got Bana on it!  It’s not as easy as it looks to be towed but we had a lot of laughs and poor Tim was probably exhausted after towing us all over the neighborhood:

The most challenging part of the weekend was getting a picture of all the kids together … Pete was occasionally overwhelmed with all the commotion/chaos.

But we finally got a shot of Bana’s entire bunch:

We had a great visit and look forward to seeing the Wisconsinites again soon!