Jon and Lynsey's Blog

It was a great weekend. It all started with a little roadtrip to see Dohr and his place in Milwaukee. We dropped our bags and headed to the Cheesecake Factory for a dinner that took a little longer than expected but was none the less very filling. From there it was down to North Ave with Dohr, Chris, Kelly, Lynsey and myself. We meet up with Heidi and her cousin and the Milwaukee bar scene was about to begin. We started at RC's where I did not have one drink, although by the time I wanted to and our waitress actually came back to us, we were headed out the door to BBC's. I ran in to two fellow Marines, one from mortars and another who I work with. I had two beers, Sunset Wheat of course and a free shot of Patron and no more because I was the DD tonight! Yes folks, me! Once last call was yelled we were out the door and on the way to Heidi's to drop them off and then headed back up to Dohrs. We catched pretty quick and slept like a rock all night. We were up somewhat earlier, said our goodbyes and headed to South Milwaukee to see Jeny. We paid our respects to her and her mother on the passing of Jeny's dad a few days earlier. You could see it was tough on them but they were holding up well. We got back on the road and headed for home because Jenny and Adam, Holly and Greg were all coming in to town for the evening. The girls went and tried on dresses and Lynsey said that Jenny looked so beautiful in the wedding dresses that it brought a tear to her eye several times. You're a lucky man Adam!! So Adam and I did the guy things and looked at electronics and big ass TV's and started making dinner for the girls. After a filling dinner, the cocktails were opened and the card games began. Barman showed up not to long after and not to long after that Greg was here. We had ourselves a nice lil crowd. We all piled in to Barman's Jimmy once the beer was gone and got a free ride downtown. After showing the Madison bar scene how to do it Whitewater style we headed to Ian's grabbed some pizza, called a van taxi and waited for our DD home. We saw a red Pontiac nail a Cherokee in the middle of Johnson and Frances and then watched as the Pontiac speed off down Frances trying to get away. The Jeep took off after him nearly hitting two people and then disappeared around the bend. We got our wonderful ride home, I tucked Greg in to bed and then passed out myself. Greg and Holly joined Lynsey and I in my bed Sunday morning before heading upstairs and making breakfast and packing up their belongings. We said our goodbyes for the next 6 months and they headed back home. We spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon cleaning, relaxing, packing and then went and saw Pirates 2 with my dad before calling it an early evening. All in all it was a great weekend spent with some great friends. Thanks everyone!! The pics our up from Saturday night too. Take care.

Jon and Lynsey