This weekend, Aimee and I took a trip up to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, to visit our very good friends, Ed and Charlotte Hudgins. We were all friends at Crossroads College here in Rochester. They lived in Rochester after they graduated from college until about three years ago when they moved up to Eau Claire. They left such a void in our hearts that we must see them at least once or twice a year.
We spent Saturday morning and early afternoon at a farmer's market and then at an international festival in downtown Eau Claire. It was a beautiful day and fun to take in the festival. We then came back to Ed and Charlotte's house and watched the Hawkeyes lose a close football game to Pittsburgh. On Saturday evening, we went out for supper at Houligan's Pub in downtown Eau Claire (pictured above). The food was DEE-licious! I had honey-crusted pistachio chicken and have never tasted anything so extraordinarily yummy! By the way, for those of you who know Charlotte, she has lost 62 pounds via her committment to Weight Watchers...that is awesome!
Pictured above are the four of us inside Houligan's Pub smiling pretty after our scrumptious meals.
Ed and Charlotte now have a 9-year-old Bishon named Paige (pictured above just in case you were confused!) they inherited from Charlotte's aunt who passed away about two months ago. It was hilarious watching Paige outwit, outplay, and outlast Penelope who is about 50 doggy years younger than Paige! There were several times we thought we might need to get the puggy inhaler out for Penelope!
As per Sheldon-Hudgins tradition, it was a must that we play cards at some point over the course of the weekend. In the picture above, we are in the middle of a rousing game of Nerts. Aimee made us all pause while she took the picture so that she would not fall behind in this speed game. I am not sure why she needed us to pause as she won every game of Nerts we played over the weekend.
Nerts is usually our warm-up game to get our minds focused for the all-important Spades game which really determines whose marriage has been more successful since we last got together (just kidding)! For real, it is a mental battle to try to either defend or recapture the World Heavyweight Tag Team Champions of the Spades Universe trophy. As you can see in the picture above, Aimee and I defended our previous title and held onto the trophy. I should also note that out of the ten times that the trophy has been up for grabs Aimee and I have won it six times. That said, we are looking forward to Ed and Charlotte visiting us some time in the next few months and trying to recapture the trophy.
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Sounds like quite the weekend! Glad you could get away for some fun times! Looks like Ed continued to work on his Nerts game while the picture was being taken!
Very fun!! That is such a cute picture of you guys with your certificate!!
Very nice blog. I figured since you had sent me the link, the least I could do was look at it.:-)
Hi, I found your blog post through a search for “Nerts”. It is cool to see others that know about the game. I hope you don’t mind but I wanted to let you know about playnertz.com, the site for the National Nertz Association. There is a bunch of interesting Nertz information there and you can also find out how to play Nertz online. I hope you will check it out. Feel free to join and also let your friends and family know. Thanks
It sounds like you all had such a great time together! Friendships like that are priceless. Amiee one day I am gonna beat you at Nertz! Cute pics of you too by the way. See ya tomorrow night. I am so excited!!!
Nertz is DUMB! I was forced to play this game - post-granfather's-viewing - with Doug, John, Dan, Michelle, Andy, and one of Doug's children.
I suppose I think it's so dumb because I SUCKED SO BADLY! Although, I beat Michelle both games, so I guess I'm not the worst...
Sounds like a fun trip. And playing cards is always a good time! I hope you guys can make it out to Indy sometime!
Let it be known that the Sheldons only beat us by a hair for the Spades trophey. If we hadn't made one boneheaded mistake at the end, WE would be holding the trophy. Although probably not since the Sheldons conveiently forgot to bring it with them when they came to visit....Anyway we will be out to Rochester to visit sometime soon and then we will recapture the trophy.....And get beat again by Aimee in Nerts.....
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