Zurekbrau Blog

Last day of the King Biscuit Blues Festival.  Hard to believe that we’ve spent almost 3 full days listening to blues music.  It’s been great, but very tiring.  Then we still have a day in Clarksdale on Sunday. I slept in even later this morning.  I woke up hearing Rich talking on the phone.  Turns […]

It is Friday.  Does that mean that vacation is halfway over?  A week just isn’t enough. Even though I stayed up late last night, I still got up around 8:00 this morning.  We got up and dressed for breakfast downstairs.  This hotel isn’t known for their breakfast and I see why.  At least they had […]

Yep, there are at least two. I got to sleep in!  There was no wet dog nose in my hand or anywhere near my face.  I didn’t hear a dog throwing itself to the ground and sighing with an impossibly deep and long breath!  I’m on vacation!  I’m afraid to ask my son how he […]

At 7:00 this morning, Sascha starts throwing herself down on the floor and sighing really big.  I mean, really big.  I’m surprised the air isn’t sucked out of the room.  That’s her sign she is tired of watching me sleep.  It’s time to put her outside.  Yeah, she’s right.  I’ve probably slept enough.  I drag […]

I wasn’t planning to blog about last night, but we had a really great time at the First Annual Rauetoberfest.  The Raue Theater in downtown Crystal Lake offers a wide variety of entertainment for different occasions.  We normally attend the Make Your Messiah event in December.  You bring your songbook and can become part of […]

It is a working Saturday.  We replaced the back door from the deck into the kitchen.  Last winter, I noticed that the winter seal had failed.  That meant that heating was escaping and maybe the house was a little bit colder.  That probably wasn’t the case, but I had my mind made up to replace […]

Last full day with us.  And it rained.  That kind of put a damper on going fishing.  Rich and Bel made a couple of valiant attempts to get down to the river and fish.  After freezing a bit, they had to call it quits and head back.  Then it proceeded to rain most of the […]

It’s already Day 4?  The day was rainy to start.  That was a carryover from last night as well.  It stormed pretty good here.  I know I woke up in the middle of the night with thunder and lighting.  I was sure the kids heard and woke up.  But no, I was the only kid […]

I had warned the kids that we would be getting up early today.  When 8:00 AM rolled around, I started rousting people from their beds.  We needed to get up and get some sort of breakfast before we prepared for the day ahead of us.  Today…..we go to Ren Faire! Bel was the last one […]

So it was a slow day.  The kids slept in until almost 9:30 this morning.  Rich and I got up early and got our day started.  That meant coffee and the paper.  We messed around in the office with our computers and personal accounts while we waited for the kids.  Rick got up around 8:00 […]