Perfect Weekend!!

It's been a while since Bob and I just took off by ourselves. We left Friday afternoon and headed to St. Joe for the Venetian Festival. We'd had terrible storms all morning, but by the time we reached Silver Beach - the sun appeared and the remainder of the day was beautiful.

We strolled the beach and arcade area - eating all that "healthy" carnival food. We visited some of the little shops in St. Joe and had a drink at Shu's. We listened to some of the street entertainment and then headed for the Shadowland Pavilion for the evening concert - STYX. The place was packed to the outdoor rafters - an awesome concert!!!

There we were, standing under the stars - dancing in the aisles and singing at the top of our lungs along with Tommy Shaw. As the encore began, I knew he'd sing Renegade (the song they end every concert with). This just happens to be our daughter Chrissie's favorite Styx song - so I quickly dialed her cell phone and left her own personal message - live from the concert. (She told me that she's never going to erase that message!!)

By 11:30, we were leaving the Venetian with a HUGE potato blossom to share and a lemon shake up. We drove to Stevensville to our hotel. Saturday morning, we continued our weekend of healthy eating with breakfast at Cracker Barrel and then started home along Red Arrow Highway - a beautiful drive through the country, along the lake.

We stopped in New Buffalo, where one of my co-workers has his boat anchored. We found Brian and his family and had a nice visit with them before returning to South Bend.

We weren't even gone 24 hours, but we accomplished so much and enjoyed being away from the phone and the hustle and bustle of two teenagers. We definately need to do that more often!!