My transcript arrived. The master's degree is official!

Earlier/Later and Blacker/Whiter

 Guten Morgen. This morning I am on-call for awhile--I expect to be called in around noon but it could be much or a little bit earlier or later. I will try to get some classwork done and read ahead. Also, I am helping Sue with her arrangement of the tune the kids taught us in Tanzania Under One Sky. Her 8th grade band will perform this arrangement sometime this school year.

 Yes, these are old photos, we are not feeding Christoph MikeDonald's daily!

 Christoph came with me to band rehearsal last night and seemed to have a good time playing a lot of music in 90 minutes. The concert was postponed until next week due to the 94 degree temperatures. We sight-read Superman! from the 1970s movie by the same name.

 Susan The Thinker

Yes, more boating photos.

Christoph's first soccer practice is Wednesday and his first game is already this Saturday morning in Stillwater (Stilleswasser Stadt)! Swoop Falcons!

Kevin and Cathy at the Alehouse

Nigel in his house

. . . Greased Lightning . . .

 White Out / Black Cat

Sue's school is having a "white out" day to support one of their teams in some sort of sporting event. All the teachers and students will wear white or something.

Nigel is one of the cuter cats around

Here's Christoph walking by my office early in the morning after being up late doing homework last night.

Saturday Sun Day

93 & sunny + long walk at the U of M= ice cream time!

We went for a drive to the University of Minnesota to see Doug's work and drop off some cookies for Doug and the other weekend workers.  We took a long, hot walk around the university, checked out the university bookstore (Christoph bought a T-shirt), and looked in the gate of TCF Bank Football Stadium.  To reward ourselves, we stopped at Dairy Queen on the way home.  I pointed out to Christoph that this Dairy Queen is on his bus route home!  

Welcome to the Hotel Condominium

 Why not a few more photos from the weekend?

 This is one of the massive warehouses along the river that has been converted into condominiums.

 Mollie

 Classic Kevin (enjoying a Beck's Bier from Bremen)

 When night fell we headed back into port. Our navigation lights weren't working so it was good that we were able to avoid the Coast Guard and Police boats.

 The Coast Guard on patrol

 Christoph had a burger at his first brew pub style restaurant. There was even live music including a rendition of Hotel California. He seemed to enjoy the free refills on his Coke.

The cats loved the birds in Eleva.

No Ride on a Fast Machine

 The only two Mountain Dew Kick Start Orange Flavored beverages I have ever enjoyed have been on road trips in Wisconsin. It tastes like bubbly orange juice with caffeine.

 Christoph has been a good sport about posing and smiling for photos.

 Relax everyone, this is only a photo of Christoph sitting on Mikey's new Harley Davidson. He did not take a ride on this high powered machine. Sunanda got a photo of me sitting on this bad boy, too!

 Off they rode into the sunset heading west down Packard Avenue, Cudahy's Main Street.

Nephew Nate sporting the number 80 saw some playing time in this game but not as much as the previous week. Oak Creek won 27 - 0.

Here is Dorene's green grass. We were able to sit outside on the patio a bit when the weather cooled down some.

Mollie Hoola Hoops pretty well.

 Here's that orange shirt everyone loves so much,

This is the view from the dock at the Citgo Yacht Club where Katie's aunt docks their pontoon boat. The building on the left is where the Milwaukee Ale House is where we enjoyed a slow and late dinner on Saturday night. Pete was wearing a cap that read "Citgo yacht Club". Citgo is a just a gas station but this one is located right on the Milwaukee River so they rent out dock/slips for boats.

 I joked that the men would have to "pop off" their shirts because that is what people on boats on the river seemed to be doing. We left our shirts off for a while and more passing boaters waved to us when we had our shirts off. Then it got cold.

 I guess the girls sat in the front of the boat while the men piloted the craft from the back. Mollie and Annie walked around continuously.

Another view of downtown Milwaukee