Our summer bucket list

After having kind of wimpy work schedules the last month or so, Jose and I are in the final push before school´s out for summer! Yay! We only have a couple of months left (school goes until the end of June). We were also able to purchase our flights back to Michigan thanks to our tax return! Double yay! Lately we have been talking about how great it will be to be there for almost two months starting in July. We can´t wait. In preparation we have been starting a sort of summer bucket list. Surprise, surprise, a lot of our list involves food.

 1. Eat Reese´s peanut butter cup blizzards. Honestly, is there any better combination?

 2. Assuming that it has opened, we would like to go to the new Cheesecake Factory.

 3. Enjoying all the summer flavored beer. Can you say OBERON?

 4. Living out on Daphne´s new raft at my parents´house. She isn´t really going to be big enough to enjoy it yet so we will help break it in. We also heard that my dad bought her a slide for it. Yes!

 5. Going out for Sushi and Mexican (and all the other ethnic foods we can´t find here).

 6. We are bringing home our Wii remotes to plan a tournament.

 7. We will probably wear out our welcome at both my parents´and my sisters´homes. That means we will be kind of nomadic in the hopes of seeing everyone. We would like to spend a good amount of time with people, instead of a few hours.

 I am sure over time we will add to this bucket list. Any other suggestions?

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