Busy Weekend

The Syring Family had an awesome weekend that exhausted the hell out of us, but it was SO much fun. Friday night we went up to the Bacon's and got to spend some time with Dan & Holly. We found out Dan has a slight chip in his Fibula (lower leg), that puts him out of commission for a month or so, but I doubt it will sideline him completely. Mara was able to help milk on Saturday so everyone could keep their day off schedule through the weekend. I was selfish & slept in until 8:00. We took Jack & Dusty (Bacon's Dogs) and Linus & Lucy to the Standing Rocks Dog Park on Saturday for a couple of hours, then took Linus & Lucy to Brainards Bridge Park in Waupaca so Lucy could swim and cool off. Mara found some time to relax with Linus while I tried to wear Lucy out.










Lucy got slower, as you can see in the video below, but never stopped playing. She is insane! She also had a surprise for a sleeping Mara...

We headed back to Milwaukee on Saturday night to prepare for the rest of our long weekend. We met Nikki, Crawford, & their dog CoCo at the dog park in Milwaukee on Sunday. They took Linus & Lucy until Tuesday, and Mara and I headed to Chicago! We stopped at our favorite driving range (GolfTec) in Des Planes, IL for some relaxation. It was almost 85°F, but after the cold snap last week, that felt awesome.





Mara took an awesome action photo of me. If you click on the picture you can even see the ball rocketing out over the range. I'm pretty sure it's a dead hook left...












We then headed to our hotel & then to downtown Chicago. We ate at a restaurant called Vermillion, an Indian-Mediterranean fusion restaurant, recommended by Mara's boss Shekar. It was absolutely awesome! The blue corn encrusted scallops were my favorite, and Mara really enjoyed her Paneer. We then walked off the bottle of wine for a few hours down by the lake, and headed back to our hotel.
Monday we headed back downtown and parked at the Field Museum, and walked around a bustling Chicago lakefront for a few hours. We then headed to the Museum of Science & Industry, on the South-Side, and went to Body Worlds 2. If you have never been, check out their schedule and go to one when it comes close. The Chicago one is only there until April 29th. We were amazed (again) at the complexity of the bodies on display. They even had a few preserved organs you could touch. The smoker's lung is something everyone should see.
After wondering around the museum for a while we headed to the "Friendly Confines", also known as Wrigley Field, for the Cubs/Brewers game. It was a little chilly (47°F, with 15 MPH breeze off the lake), but we were in it for the long haul. After 4 hours & 5 minutes, our Brewers came from behind and made our long weekend an unbelievable trip. We still had a 2 hour trip home (got home around 2am), but it was worth coming close to exhaustion for such a great weekend!

Here is a panoramic picture I took when we got to the game

Here is last out of the 12 Inning, 4 Hr Game...

Hope everyone else had a chance to enjoy the nice weather!

GO BREWERS!!!

5K

This last weekend we got both sides of the Bacon/Syring families together for a 5K (3.1 Mile) walk in Oshkosh. It was great to get everyone up & down to Oshkosh! From the Syring side we had Jennifer & Grandma who came up from IA, Larry & Deb who hosted a dinner the night before & lunch the day of, Chris & Shell who hosted a dinner the night of the 5K, and Mara & I who did nothing other than sign everyone up! From the Bacon's we had Dan & Holly who made the early trip to be in Oshkosh by 7:30, and Sally who came with them, from Hudon, WI.
It was great to see Deb complete the 3 miles without anything more than a little knee pain! We all knew she could do it!

Here is a good picture of all of us after the race. It was a little chilly, especially near the lake, but we talked so much we barley noticed.














We also had a great time playing with 3-Mile Rock. It made the whole journey by everyone taking turns kicking it along the race route. No one ever said we were normal...
We almost lost 3-Mile Rock, but the quick action of Dan & Mara recovered 3MR from the depths of the OshKosh sewer system!

Thanks again for everyone who walked with us!!! Hope to get a few more good run/walks in this summer before we leave!

April Snow showers...

Hopefully still bring May flowers. I can handle snow in April but there had better not be snow in May! This picture was taken yesterday afternoon, near Mitchell Airport here in Milwaukee.

Best Golf Shot...EVER!

In honor of The Master's staring today I have to relive one of the best shots I've ever seen in golf. Tiger went on to win his 4th Master's after this.
Even if you don't like golf, you gotta love the roar of the crowd!

Year: 2005
Hole: Par 3 16th, 170 Yards (AKA: Redbud)

Saturn Is A Crazy Place!!!

For anyone who has an interest in astronomy, or just a curious notion, should look at these images of Saturn from the Cassini Space Craft. NASA saw a strange rotating vertex in the south pole of Saturn in 2006. The eye of the hurricane is larger then the entire Earth and the wind speed is twice that of a Category 5 hurricane (550 km/hr or 340 MPH)!

But this isn't the strangest thing. In the 1980's the Voyager 1 Space Craft flew by Saturn's North Pole and spotted a Hexaganal (six sided) Cloud Formation! 20 years after Voyager, the Cassini Space Craft spotted the same, stable, formation and took a series of pictures put together in this animation & still photo:

Fluids have been shown to form polygons (4 or more sided object) when rotating extremely fast:

Hope you found this as interesting as I did (but I doubt it...) 8-)