Sister comes to visit

Wow! It seems like forever since I posted on my blog. I was busy planning a visit from my sister, Nancy. She is from Louisiana and visits every year in September, so I like to try to find new and exciting things for us to do.

This year my friends Carmen and Malena joined Nancy and I for a trip to the Fireside Dinner Theater to see Hairspray. The play was excellent! I can't remember when I saw a more perfectly cast performance. They were just awesome - even better than the movie. Malena brought her Hairspray CD so we sang show tunes all the way home.

I enjoyed my Labor Day weekend trip to Galena so much that I thought Nancy might like to see the quaint town. We picked a gorgeous autumn day to make the 3 hour drive. Along the way, we played our own version of Password, and we were both pretty good at it. While in Galena, we ate in the outdoor patio at Vinny Vanucchi's Italian Restaurant. The homemade mushroom soup just blew us both away! After lunch, we shopped and shopped and shopped. I bought a DVD version of Password for us to play at home. OMG! It has the hardest words to try and get someone else to guess. We both had a good time laughing at how bad we both were. I am hoping that the more we play the better we will get, just as we have with Trivial Pursuit.

All good things must unfortunately come to an end. I can't wait for next September to visit with my sister, Nancy, again.