"Interesting" weekend.

Actually it wouldn't have been that unusual if the power had stayed on but, alas, it did not..  We started the weekend Friday evening when Ron's brother, John, and his wife, Pat, came down from Brown Deer, WI for the weekend.  Headed to the Knights of Columbus fish fry.  Yes the one on Cass Street, the only one as far as I'm concerned.  All enjoyed plenty of good hot food and Ron and I enjoyed seeing an old friend, Stan Lantka, that we used to work with.  After some catching up and some hugs he took his carry out and left and we enjoyed our sit down.
As usual, we never know when to shut up and go to bed.  It seems we never run out of things to talk about.  Saturday morning and it rains, we need the rain but we also had promised Pat at trip to Oak Brook Center and she'd already been rained out once.  It did stop and we took off.  I love that mall.  I have such good memories from the 60s when my friend, Caryl, and I would go "shopping" and then stop for a salad.  It was one of the very first malls in the area and it was, and still is, an out door mall.  The landscaping inside is always beautiful and this year they had giant "frogs" painted in different motifs.  We did a lot of walking and shopping.  I have reason to believe Pat really liked the experience by the number of shopping bags John was caring.  She realized why I wanted the guys to stay close.  We used and abused them with shopping bags.  It was a little warm for me and I had a few problems but a bottle of water and a sit down helped and we managed to hit all the stores we had planned on.  There is never enough time to hit them all.
Since it was going to be John's birthday on Sunday he got to pick the type of food he wanted for supper.  Pat choose Italian.  We don't eat out a lot when we're in IL so we headed to Pappa Joes in New Lenox where we had enjoyed a meal the Saturday before with friends Larry and Judy.  We were late enough to get there after the entertainment started and chose to set in that part so we could enjoy it.  Unfortunately, Ron and my lasagna was NOT up to the high standards the chicken parmigiana had been the week before.  Pat insisted her pizza was fine and she ate it all and John said is lasagna was fine too.  We had a nice leisurely meal and enjoyed the band and their excellent renditions of 50s, 60s, 70s, and some Country music.
Well, if we'd all gone to bed when we swore we were going to we probably wouldn't have known about the power outage but, we were still up so we all went out on the front porch and talked and waited for the power to come back on.  Didn't take but a couple hours so it wasn't to bad.
Sunday was a sleep in day with more rain to add to the weekend.  We didn't loose our power.  Our neighbor, Marge, came over after church to say hi and got caught in a down pour so we had a nice chat.  We ended up going out for breakfast in the afternoon.  We we got back to the house we settled some more issues with our upcoming cruise and divided up some more items to get us closer to being ready to enjoy our cruise. There can't be much more to do and it's only 54 days away.