Badger Weekend Ends With The Sickness

I know I haven’t written in a while, we have been busy, then we went to Wisconsin and now we are both sick. Yup, that’s what we brought back from Wisconsin…the flu. How can you not when that state is absolutely cold and everyone is complaining how they don’t feel good. Anyway, we arrived in Wisconsin a week ago and when we got off the plane we were greeted with cold and rain, but we were not shocked by this instead we were reminded instantly of why we moved to Arizona. I spent Friday with my mom and grandma before I headed to dinner with my sister and drinks with friends. Saturday was the big game against Iowa and the whole reason we flew home. Every year we go home for at least one Badger football game and meet up with our friends. This year is the first year in a long time that every one of our friends was able to make it back to Madison, which made it a ton of fun. We started out the long day at 9am downtown with all the other Badger fans. My mom asked me what we do that early in the morning. I was shocked that she even asked because I assumed she knew that we were drinking at 9am, but she had no idea. I mean what else do people do at 9am before a Badger football game? This is Wisconsin people. We made it to the game to watch them lose against the Hawkeyes, but that’s ok because we spent all day and night with all of our dear friends. It happens once a year and the best day all year long. After a long day of drinking I was surprised to get out of bed in the morning to spend Sunday with my family. Anybody who knows me understands that I have a tough time the next day after a full day of partying, but not this time. I was good to go and excited to spend the day with family. Once you move away from home you realize how important family is and so I enjoyed the three hours I got to hang out and catch up with family members. I got to watch Sunday night shows with my mom and then off to the Milwaukee airport on Monday with Andy to head back to warm Arizona. Once we landed in AZ I started getting sick and by the time we picked up the dogs from daycare and headed home I had a fever and was heading south pretty fast. Unfortunately Andy and I woke up on Tuesday morning with the sickness. Of course I was monitoring my fever all day, as I stayed home from work, to make sure I wasn’t walking around with the swine. I never got over 101 and the fever broke in 24 hours so we were both swine free. We are both still struggling with getting healthy but I guess that is what happens when you travel from 100 degree weather to 40 degree weather. Our bodies couldn’t handle the torture!