What's been going on?

We've had a busy last couple weeks. I have been really busy at work. My counterpart has been on vacation so I'm covering his stuff. It's made for a stressful couple weeks.
We had Grandma Amy, my parents, and all of our friends over for dinner last Tuesday. It was a great time. I had a ton of compliments on the food. Thank you all.
Last weekend we experienced our first "Pucker" ride. Our friends Chris and Karol are on a RAGBRAI team called Team Pucker. It is named after the Pucker brand of schnapps. They are a drinking group of riders and Saturday was not different. We rode from Brainard to Valparaiso on the Oak Creek Trail. It's a rail trail (former railroad track turned into a crushed limestone rec trail) that runs 14 miles. So we had a 28 mile round trip ride that took 9 hours. Yes 9 hours. We left Brainard at 11 and got back there at 8 just before dark. We drank the whole way down and back. It was a lot of fun except for the extreme exhaustion we had to deal with on the way home, and the chiggers I got from somewhere.
Kelli had been out of town the last three days on business. She went to KC on Tuesday for the day and then left the next day to fly to Detroit. She'll be back tonight.
I've been continuing to ride my motorcycle and am getting used to riding in traffic. I think I'm going to start riding it to work next week.
Speaking of next week, it will be a short week. We have Monday off for Labor Day and then We took a day of vacation on Friday to go to Minneapolis to see Kelli's Uncle Tim and Aunt Terri. We are going to have Chris and Karol joining us this time so it should make for a fun trip. Chris has family up there so we are car pooling.