This weekend was Jocelyn’s high school class reunion, Peoria Steamboat Days and her grandparents’ last month in Peoria before their permanent move to Arizona. Jocelyn bought a new/used Lincoln LS earlier in the week so we cruised to Peoria Friday afternoon in style. It was a hot and even hotter by the time we got to Peoria. Once in Peoria we checked into the hotel and got ready for the reunion. The festivities were held at an artsy bar type place down by the riverfront. The first part of the reunion was spent watching a jazz band with the general public. After the band finished it was just Jocelyn’s class. They had a bunch of munchies and some sandwiches. There was plenty of beer in the coolers and I mingled with Jocelyn and met the old mates. It was a lot of fun. Around ten the hall shut down we went to this arcade bar type place. We continued the fun there and at about midnight we headed back to the hotel so J could get some sleep for the morning Steamboat run.

J got up super early to run the Steamboat race in the heat. I was unable to get up and support her so I slept in. Once she got back I woke up and walked to McD’s to get some breakfast. I got back and showered up before we went to J’s grandparents’ on her dad’s side house. We spent the afternoon there looking at wedding pictures and eating Italian from a local eatery. Late in the afternoon we got ready at the hotel and headed to the other grandparents’ house. We met everyone there and headed to the country club and had a last family meal with the grandparents’ in Peoria. The family went to J’s uncle’s house and we spent a majority of the night there. I was planning on hitting the Peoria saloons but J was too tired so Arianne and I hit the town. The bar we went to had an amazing beer selection and I partook in many fine suds. Arianne and I played some shuffle puck and we ran into some of the people from the reunion. We talked to them the rest of the night and then headed back.

Sunday we drove home to Milwaukee. We stopped at a gas station to fill up and eat. Also filling up was the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile, what a sweet job that would be. Once back in Mil-town we went to the Brewer game to get our bobblehead and headed home.