Matt Holthe's Fleeting Thoughts

As an update to this post I'm now the Foursquare mayor for 12 places. I lost Denny's Diner, so now it's exclusively Bloomington, IL places. I also lost Schooner's pub. But I added three new ones: McDonald's (there's a bunch in town - the one closest to my house where I go for breakfast a few times a week) Jimmy John's (don't know how I got this one - we go there for lunch about twice a month) Suburban East Park (daughter's T-Ball practice is here. After that's over, someone else should be able to steal this one pretty quickly) It seems like Foursquare activity is starting to wane, however. Maybe the fad is over nationwide.

For those of you that don't know, foursquare is a "check-in" web site where you check-in to different locations as you go there. If you check in the most at a certain location, you become the "mayor" of that location. Currently, I'm the mayor of 11 locations on foursquare. I think that's the most I have owned at any time. One of the most unusual ones was one I got last week at Denny's Diner in Wisconsin Dells. We went there twice for breakfast and I became the mayor. Here's a current list of all the locations where I am mayor: Holthe Household (Bloomington, IL) Rob Knight's Swim America (Bloomington, IL) Schooners (Bloomington, IL) El Toro (Bloomington, IL) Eastland Mall Play Area (Bloomington, IL) Chesterbrook Academy (Bloomington, IL) IBM Bloomington (Bloomington, IL) Super Gyros Blm (Bloomington, IL) Kulb Chalian Leak Urologists (Bloomington, IL) Denny's Diner (Lake Delton, WI) Supreme Buffett (Bloomington, IL)

Last week my family and I took a trip to Wisconsin Dells, WI. It's the water park capital of the world - there are tons of them. We stayed at a resort hotel that includes water parks. There are 4 indoor and 4 outdoor water parks exclusively for people staying at the resort. On the one hand, that's good - the number of people in the water park is limited, you can walk or take a shuttle to the water parks if you want, and it's easy to get back to your room if needed. On the other hand, you're paying for water parks as part of your hotel stay. If you don't make use of the water parks, you're losing money. Luckily, we were at a water park every day of our stay, if only for an hour or two each day. It was a great vacation and I'm sure we'll be back there in a couple years as the little one gets older and braver (she didn't go down any of the tall water slides, and very few of the shorter slides).