My Madison Home
Last weekend, I took a trip with The B-Man to Madison, Wisconsin, for the wedding of his close friend.
Seeing the town through new wiser (wider) eyes was quite an experience. It had been a decade since I'd last visited. A decade since I graduated from college!
It had, of course, gotten slightly larger, but overall, the place hadn't changed much.
As I passed people on State Street, I thought about how sweet "the kids" looked as they rushed around to classes and social activities.
Science Hall
In a few short years, I will have started college half of my life ago. It's a weird juxtaposition because I don't feel old, at all. I feel vibrant. In my prime. I feel smarter and healthier and more well-traveled... but I do not feel old.
During the visit, I hung out with my long-time friend, Aaron. We chatted about old times, back when we met and cleaned the dorms together 13 years ago. I always made him clean up the vomit. He was an incredible gentleman because between the three dorms we cleaned each weekend, there was usually a daily dose of tossed cookies (and beer).
When we had free time, I showed Bryan around my old haunts.
Memorial Union
Memorial Union Terrace
And my old house.
And some other cool stuff.
Which he tried to climb, as usual.
We discovered that Madison has installed a set of decorative cows. Art Cows, if you will.
All the other cows totally make fun of that last one.
Many don't know that Madison was the birthplace of the satirical newspaper, The Onion. If you ask me sometime, I'll tell you the story of how I almost worked there when it was a fledgling business run out of the basement of a sub sandwich shop.
Since Bryan was in the wedding, we enjoyed the good food and company at the rehearsal dinner. The moon was out and I tried to take a photo of it without a tripod. My hand shook, and this is what I got. How fitting.
And then, we went to the wedding. My man looks hot in a tux.
As always, his friends were a blast. I'd like to think that they're becoming my friends as well. We certainly got close enough for this photo. (I am a wizard at the hold-out. Six people in one.)
To see more photos of this trip visit my photopages.
Seeing the town through new wiser (wider) eyes was quite an experience. It had been a decade since I'd last visited. A decade since I graduated from college!
It had, of course, gotten slightly larger, but overall, the place hadn't changed much.
As I passed people on State Street, I thought about how sweet "the kids" looked as they rushed around to classes and social activities.
Science Hall
In a few short years, I will have started college half of my life ago. It's a weird juxtaposition because I don't feel old, at all. I feel vibrant. In my prime. I feel smarter and healthier and more well-traveled... but I do not feel old.
During the visit, I hung out with my long-time friend, Aaron. We chatted about old times, back when we met and cleaned the dorms together 13 years ago. I always made him clean up the vomit. He was an incredible gentleman because between the three dorms we cleaned each weekend, there was usually a daily dose of tossed cookies (and beer).
When we had free time, I showed Bryan around my old haunts.
Memorial Union
Memorial Union Terrace
And my old house.
And some other cool stuff.
Which he tried to climb, as usual.
We discovered that Madison has installed a set of decorative cows. Art Cows, if you will.
All the other cows totally make fun of that last one.
Many don't know that Madison was the birthplace of the satirical newspaper, The Onion. If you ask me sometime, I'll tell you the story of how I almost worked there when it was a fledgling business run out of the basement of a sub sandwich shop.
Since Bryan was in the wedding, we enjoyed the good food and company at the rehearsal dinner. The moon was out and I tried to take a photo of it without a tripod. My hand shook, and this is what I got. How fitting.
And then, we went to the wedding. My man looks hot in a tux.
As always, his friends were a blast. I'd like to think that they're becoming my friends as well. We certainly got close enough for this photo. (I am a wizard at the hold-out. Six people in one.)
To see more photos of this trip visit my photopages.
posted by Bert at 3:52 PM
3 Comments:
Those are great pictures! I love the one of your old house - I prefer older houses for their "character". The cows are a riot! Is the last one supposed to be a princess?
Beautiful pictures! I live in Edmonton and we have bison instead of the cows, but they look just as bizarre. And someone chiseled the testicles off all of them a few years back, leading me to wonder why you would put testicles on a bison statue in the first place...
Amazing moon picture. Maybe should get published somewhere (else). And you look hot in that dress!
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