A Great Excuse for a Great Dinner

It seems like I'm always talking about dinner out at some great restaurant or another. The truth is that I just love going out to eat (have since I can remember). So, I use just about any reason I can think of to justify spending the money. This one was better than most. My BFF and I are celebrating our 60th birthdays this year. Since our birthdays are only 12 days apart, we always celebrate with dinner on the weekend between them. This year we went to Volare Ristorante in Wixom. What a great place! We had antipasti and wine to start, then enjoyed a great italian dinner. Of course, we both brought the Hubs along to pick up the check!

Lions Club Outing

Yesterday we played in the Lathrup Village Lions Club golf outing for the second year. This is one of several fund raisers the Lions have each year, and we really enjoy playing in it. This year we ran into a couple of girls that used to play on the Friday night couples league we were part of. We haven't seen them in years, so it was great chatting with them.
We had a steak dinner after the outing, sitting with Peggy and Dick and catching up on the latest happenings in the family. I also was able to get my drive working at just the right time, which awarded me a little cash for the Longest Drive contest!

Golf and Visiting

I took a few days off work this week, and the Hubs and I decided to play a little golf together. We finally played Verona Hills yesterday, and discovered it is a beautiful gem of a course. After all the years of driving past it, I'm glad we finally took the opportunity to play it. It will not be our last time. Since we knew we would be in the area, we planned to spend the night at my sister's. My BIL recently had a heart attack, and it was good to spend some time with them and see that he is on the mend. We had a wonderful dinner together last night, and breakfast this morning. Then we sat and visited while we watched the boats sail up the lakeshore. Very relaxing. We aeven saw a bald eagle who has been living in the area. Beautiful!

A Wet Canoe Trip

It's been a week since we went camping with the group. Turns out, it rained the whole weekend. We didn't let it stop us, though. First thing Saturday morning, we launched the first set of adventurers. We had both canoes and kayaks on the long portion of the trip. Six hours overall. The rain didn't seem to bother them. I guess they figured they'd be getting plenty wet anyway.

After we sat around for a bit, it was time to launch the rafters.

Their trip was much shorter. About 2-3 hours. Then we went back upstream and met the first group at the halfway point. We brought them lunch.

We spent the rest of the weekend sitting around camp, dodging raindrops.

It was much fun, as it always is. Even Luis and Alesandro realized you're never too young to have fun camping.

I'm sure they will be canoeing before we know it.