& Carrie (pictured with Lucas) is a sophomore at UW Seattle; he towers over his mom quite a bit. 
Jean & Rich Simons
September 20, 2009
In the morning we drove from West Salem WI to Fond du Lac WI to meet with Jean and Rich Simons. We got off I-94 at Mauston and took a state highway (#23) east to Fond du Lac to meet at a sports bar, called The Back Door. There we had lunch together while the Green Bay Packers tried to win over the Cincinnati Bengals, to no avail.
In a week, Jean will have hip surgery at Sheboygan Memorial Hospital. She was walking with a cane and it was obvious that she was in pain. She is ready for this, but a little anxious because this is the first surgery she has had since a tonselectomy as a child. Jean said that her doctor told her he doesn’t see how she can walk at all on that hip joint.
We had a good visit at the restaurant, catching up on family news. It has been three years since we last visited. The plan was to go to the cottage on Lake Winnebago where Steve and Carrie of Maple Valley WA were vacationing with their sons -- Wes and Lucas, a sophomore at UW in Seattle. Steve has been at Boeing for 25 years. Carrie still works as a nurse in a Seattle-area hospital. Also visiting later was Amy and BJ from West Bend WI and their two sons -- Zack(age 14) and Josh(age 11). Zack is now taller than his mom, Amy. Amy, a math teacher, is looking real good; she runs four miles a day.
Steve and Carrie and their sons were at a family party in Hartford WI for the afternoon. One of Carrie’s brothers and his wife had adopted two Ethiopian boys (ages 3 & 5) and the party was to welcome them into the family. To mark the occasion, Ethiopian food was prepared and served with a flat bread. Ethiopeans use no utensils and mop up the various sauces and meat dishes with the bread. Steve described the meal very well and we could therefore enjoy it vicariously.
There was room to park the RV at the lake property so everything was very convenient. It rained all night, bringing down the acorns and hickory nuts with the rain drops. That made things interesting at times during the night.
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