High Five for the Holidays, Part 2

 

One

After smooth and easy evening flights to Madison, Wisconsin, we settled in for a few days of holiday fun. On our first full day, we walked to the Kohl Center where we watched the Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team win handily over...a team I can't remember. I couldn't help but think, as we cruised through campus before the game and then later while we sang the UW Varsity song, about Will heading off to college and whether or not he'll choose Wisconsin. Stay tuned...

Two

Later that evening, we visited the Zoo Lights at the Henry Vilas Zoo, one of our favorite Madison holiday traditions. 

Proof I was there for the carousel ride too.

Three

We spent part of our second day in Wisconsin tubing at Tyrol Basin ski resort. The mountain was nearly empty when we first arrived, so we had plenty of time to set up all of our trains and film a bunch of our runs before the crowds picked up. And the weather was perfect - cold enough to keep the snow from melting (and from getting wet) but not so cold that we were uncomfortable being outside for a couple of hours. We had a blast!

I feel like this should be his new profile pic.

Four

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were a flurry of wrapping and unwrapping, cooking and baking, eating and drinking, playing and puzzling, and watching holiday movies, football and futbol games, and Wheel of Fortune. 

Walking down by the lake.

All my nephew asks for when it comes to holiday dinners is "tube
bread." (Due to food allergies, he has a limited number of foods he
can eat - crescent rolls are on that list.) We had 10 people, and all 40 of
these were eaten...we think he had 15 while we weren't paying attention.

Merry Christmas!

Cheers, with our traditional pomegranate mimosas.

Out for a walk and posing with one of the MANY
Santa inflatables on Madison's now-famous Santa Lane.

Sweet Molly, who would let me pet her but only
late at night when I was the only one still awake.

Five

On our second-to-last day (Will's last day), we tried out a new indoor/outdoor golf venue outside of Madison. It was incredibly foggy that day which meant that the sensors had a hard time registering our hits/balls (as in, it could take 15 hits before the sensors picked up a hit, even if the hits were solid), but we still had fun. 

On everyone else's last day, we all went to see Wicked (an encore showing for my mom, Hallie, and me) - it was just as fabulous the second time around!

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Happy weekend, friends!