Suite Life of Kevan and Alicia

The last few weeks have been an interesting mix of excitment, angst, firsts and oldies but goodies.

Kevan and I went to the Jack Johnson concert at Alpine Valley. It was pretty amazing. Niether Kevan or I have been there before [Though my mom was pregnant with me when she went to REO Speedwagon there back in the day.] Jack was great and I knew quite a few of the songs, of course Kevan knew them all. Kevan and I had grass seats, rented some chairs and got a pretty good viewing spot. From where we were sitting we where able to do some pretty great people watching. The 40-year old women in front of us was pretty intoxicated and slept through the opener and then sat slumped over, texting for most of Jack. There was a screamer, I mean, girl behind us that was very excited about the show and about Jack - he is her man as she said several times. Ironically enough, she knew none of his songs and was pretty whiney about the fact that he had not played the one song that she does know. She stopped screaming about 45 minutes into the show. Our friends were also there, but those lucky dogs had front row seats! Something that we have discovered while we were there is that we have little tolerance for underaged drinkers and even of-age as$hole drinkers - we attributed that to our experience in the residence halls.

The next day Kevan and I went to a Brewers game and had seats in a suite - Thank you Dan Mike and his mom! It was pretty awesome to be a high roller for the day with the special parking lot, special enterance and catered pretzel bites, hot dogs and cheese tray. It was also pretty great to hang out with Nikki, Dan, Kacy and Joey. Oh, and it was Robin Yount bobble head day. This was the second Brewers game that we have gone to and it is so nice. The Brewers kept me connected to Milwaukee. I showed my pride for the Mil-town by rooting for the Brew Crew [and damning the team from the south]. The Brewers though are not the team I left, many of the players have changed or are in talks of being traded, I don't like change and this makes me nervous!

Yesterday Kevan and I took some Miller time! Well, we took the Miller Brewery tour. Again this is something that I had not ever done and Kevan had but when he was young. What can I say about the tour...it was pretty cool. The video was pretty cheesy [not the good WI kind] and was clearly filmed in the 90's. Kevan impressed the tour guide with his mass knowledge of Miller products. At the end of the tour we got a free sample of Miller Lite - yum! and two samples of your choice - I choose Summer Shandy and Batch-19 (this is a pre-prohibition beer that Miller is selectively serving in Milwaukee). All were delicious and during tasting we made a tour buddy. She was visiting from LA and will be running the Chicago Rock'n'Roll half marathon.

Today we went to Cliffords for a fish fry! Tasty!

Niether of us have jobs yet, but we continue to fill out applications and cross our fingers. I wanted to be home so that I can help my family and I am happy to do that. However, right now I am feeling like I need to help myself before I can help them. Unfortunately, my family has needed me and my introvert batteries are wearing low. Please cross your fingers and put out good metaphysics so that we get a job and a house stat.

Until then we will continue living our own Suite Life of Kevan and Alicia as if we are on a permanent cheap vacation in my grandparent's house.