No dog to wake me up at 6:00 AM!\u00a0 I managed to sleep in until 9:00.\u00a0 What heaven.\u00a0 We were in no hurry to get moving.\u00a0 Since everyone thought we were out shopping for a shirt this morning, it worked to our advantage to do it last night.\u00a0 Breakfast was starting to sound pretty good though.\u00a0 On to food at that point.<\/p>\n
We arrived at The Mansion around 11:00.\u00a0 Rick and Joe were sitting around the living room watching some sort of cartoons or something.\u00a0 That was fine.\u00a0 Alex was exercising downstairs.\u00a0 I think Rich went down to heckle him through the remainder of his work.\u00a0 Could be, Rich felt guilty?\u00a0 Probably not.<\/p>\n
Kelli came home around 12:00.\u00a0 She took Lucy for a walk around the walking path.\u00a0 Rich decided too late that he wanted to do that.\u00a0 So we both suited up and headed out.\u00a0 The path to Valhalla Lake starts on the left.\u00a0 We walked the path and met a lot of dogs and their owners on the way.\u00a0 I\u2019d say this was a pretty popular place to go walking.\u00a0 We saw a spaniel, box, Border collie, a nice mix, and a couple of other dogs.\u00a0 I really only notice the dogs and not their owners that much.<\/p>\n
The wind was pretty strong until we reached the tree line.\u00a0 The break gave us some relief from the bracing bite of the cold and wet wind.\u00a0 We reached the lake and Rich saw a muskrat swimming out across the length of the water.\u00a0 He saw Rich about that time and sunk under the surface.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t see him anymore after that.\u00a0 We turned up the trail to go on the dirt path through the woods.\u00a0 It was a very nice trail and a nice stretch of the legs.\u00a0 We headed back to The Mansion.<\/p>\n
We got back to the house in time for the magic hour.\u00a0 The Louisville Kentucky basketball game started at 2:00.\u00a0 I had prearranged to make sure I could watch the game downstairs.\u00a0 I settled in on the couch and began to get ready for the rivalry game.\u00a0 Now, I\u2019m a Louisville fan for the most part.\u00a0 I watched the end of the Indiana Georgetown, which I didn\u2019t really have a vested interest in.\u00a0 On to Louisville at the Yum Center!<\/p>\n
So I followed the game as the family ebbed and flowed around me.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the Cards didn\u2019t live up to their hype this year as the 4th<\/sup> ranked team.\u00a0 Kentucky was a much better team this year, for a bunch of sophomores and freshmen.\u00a0 According to my nephew, Joe, Kentucky had recruited all of the All American players from the high schools.\u00a0 Amazing.\u00a0 I guess winning is everything.\u00a0 So I was downhearted to see that Louisville lost.\u00a0 I guess I\u2019m not picking them in March Madness.<\/p>\n Upstairs, we arranged ourselves to do the gift exchange.\u00a0 The little kids along with Erica and Greg sat in the floor to get us started.\u00a0 The adults took up places around the edges of the living room.\u00a0 Vanessa acted as Santa to pass out the gifts.\u00a0 Between the families, we had gifts between the adults.\u00a0 Everyone gave to each of the kids.\u00a0 I have to remember how much money Rick got.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember seeing it.\u00a0 Thanks to all for the gifts and the wonderful time to exchange admiring glances and quips.<\/p>\n It was time to decide on what to order for dinner.\u00a0 Erica and Greg went out for chicken and sides.\u00a0 Alex ordered pizza and tacos from two different places to be delivered.\u00a0 This was going to be a lot of food.\u00a0 Oh wait, these are Zureks and we have a lot of people.\u00a0 The pizzas arrived first followed closely by Eric and Greg.\u00a0 Soon, the tacos arrived and we began to eat.\u00a0 It was all so wonderful.\u00a0 I think we were hungry by then.<\/p>\n After dinner, the watching of the TV occurred.\u00a0 We started with Goldfinger featuring a very young Sean Connery.\u00a0 This was followed by a cult horror flick, even though I like Bruce Campbell.\u00a0 I came in to work on the blog from yesterday.<\/p>\n Pretty soon, it was time for Vanessa, Chris, and the kids to leave for their room at the hotel.\u00a0 I just had to have pictures of everyone.\u00a0 We got the cousins together for a picture.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure they were all looking at the camera though.\u00a0 Even Greg is included in these shots.\u00a0 I did get Vanessa and her brothers together for a shot.\u00a0 No outlaws this year.<\/p>\n Now the remaining Zureks have settled in.\u00a0 Kelli and I are working on blogs in the dining room.\u00a0 Alex, Rich, Jon, and Patty are in the living room watching TV.\u00a0 Erica, Greg, Joe, Rick, Patrice, and Janine are downstairs in the basement playing Cards Against Humanity.\u00a0 It\u2019s definitely a Christmas celebration.<\/p>\n Pretty soon, it\u2019ll be time to go back to the hotel and relax some more.\u00a0 With some luck, I\u2019ll sleep in again until we all need to meet up for breakfast in the morning.<\/p>\n I\u2019m tired for sure tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No dog to wake me up at 6:00 AM!\u00a0 I managed to sleep in until 9:00.\u00a0 What heaven.\u00a0 We were in no hurry to get moving.\u00a0 Since everyone thought we were out shopping for a shirt this morning, it worked to our advantage to do it last night.\u00a0 Breakfast was starting to sound pretty good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3439,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/3439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}