Labor Day Weekend

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What a great weekend Bobby and I had in Michigan over the holiday. Friday started with a reception at Michigan Stadium for a re-dedication of the new and improved stadium. It is amazing as you can see from the pictures above. They didn't skimp on anything. Our premier club seats are incredible. I hope you all get the chance at some point to go.

After the re-dedication and tour of the new facility, we met up with Glee for dinner at the Chop House on Main Street. The food, wine and company were all fantastic. All those years of waitressing paid off as the restaurant treated us to 1/3 off our entire bill!

We then retired to La Dolce Vita with the intent of having more dessert, but it turned out to just be more wine followed by a trip to Conor O'Neills, which we closed down. We got the opportunity to meet Glee's new beau, who will fit nicely in the group as long as we don't scare him off. ;)

The next morning, Glee treated us to brunch at Cafe Zola before we met up with Brian and Amber at the MI tailgate. The four of us then headed over to the game and marveled at all the activity. 113,000+ people got to watch a great season opener. We were so glad we got to attend and see MI back to the team we once knew.

After the game, we had dinner with my old V-Ball coaches, Bill & Karen Abbott at West Side Grill. It was great seeing them, reminiscing about the old days and catching up on the new. After dinner, we headed to Mark & Sasha's newly redone 5 bedroom in Concord. We arrived so late, that we ended up retiring and regrouping in the morning.

Sunday sped by rather quickly. After hanging with Sasha for a while, including a ride in the Baby Bronco with Mark and Caeden, we headed to pick up Glee, Kevin and Mike (Glee's man) to go to Ted's concert at Pine Knob. Aah, the old days. Made me really feel old. It, was however, nice to see everyone, including Doug and Toby.

We headed back to Ann Arbor just before the concert concluded, which only took us about an hour given Kevin was driving 100 MPH! We stopped into The Black Pearl (one of Kevin's local haunts) for drinks and fish tacos, yum! Then we headed back to Kevin's for more food and wine. Thank God we got to sleep in!

Next morning, which was supposed to be sunny and in the low 80's, ended up being rainy and in the high 60's. But we were able to take cover under umbrellas outdoors while we had brunch once again before catching our flight home.

We were happy to see the kids once again, but definitely enjoyed the weekend away. Can't wait to see the MI crew again in October!