Chicago

Well, I was out of town last week as a result of a phone call from one of my brother's saying "I have some frequent flyer tickets I have to use FAST."

So, off I trekked to the Chi-cago area for a few days! I'd forgotten how much a liked it, perhaps because most of my trips there had been from the Michigan side which meant you passed through Gary, Indiana and a bit of west Chicago to get there - much scarier than DC or even Detroit.

But, I digress.

First, my brothers treated me and the little men to a lunch at an Eastern European semi-hole in the wall restaurant. The food was great - from the plates of others. My meatloaf was lacking in color (light offwhite) and threw me off psychologically.

Note: Blogger is now whacking out the order of the photos I put up and so de-stress myself, the rest of this post is in no particular order.



Me receiving a "consultation" from Craig. Am I saving enough to retire? Yikes.

 

We made a visit to Craig's house because little man #1 HAD to see the Superman Blanket...a day before he went to his "Super hero workshop"



Enjoying an outdoor tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright house (his house) in the famous Oak Park area - filled with AWESOME Frank Lloyd Wright designs. Also saw the Ernst Hemingway childhood home in the same neighborhood. Small world.



Chris, Jessica, little man #1 and little man #2 at a local apple farm. Unfortunately, our coupons for a free dozen donuts and bag of apples wasn't redeemable until October. It was pretty clear they were going to hold us to it. Still fun to be out in apple farm country.

Grandpa helping little man #1 understand that he too is a super (BIG) hero. Little man #1 loves super heroes - especially Superman.



Took a trip to downtown Chicago to the Lincoln Park Zoo.





Met Grandpa halfway between Chicago and Indianapolis so he could take Aunt Rebecker there for a while before she went home.

Ate Jessica's delicious "pizza in Chicago" which is her own variation of "Chicago Pizza." We out at a few good local joints too.


Great little trip! Miss my nephews and being with family in a real life Mid-west big city/comfortable suburb atmosphere.

But, cube farms await for now...