We had a lovely visit from Anne, who was on her annual Chicago-in-February tour of duty. We had a fantastic dinner Friday night at Blackbird, including some amuse bouche from the chef to start, then celery root soup, pierogi, and scallops for appetizers, and sturgeon, venison and pork shoulder for…

We went to the Art Institute last weekend and had a look around the Modern Wing. There’s one piece that you can walk right through — all of these nylon cords hang from the ceiling in a grid and it’s a very cool feeling to walk through it. It feels…

We’ve officially tried out the skating ribbon at Maggie Daley Park! It’s a lot of fun, and a new challenge to skate up a small hill. Because our previous visit to Maggie Daley Park was at night, we didn’t get good overall photos. Here’s a panorama of the skating ribbon…

Liam is back and wearing a shuka! He forgot to bring shaving cream on the trip, and had has quite a beard going on. Liam says he will post about his trip once he has more photos from the others on the trip.

We got an email from Liam in Tanzania today! I thought you all might hearing about his trip as much as we did. He said that all is going great there. They are staying in a Masai village and built a boma. In case you were wondering what a boma is, me…

The Gorskis were in town again over the Christmas break and we all met up over at Annette and Dave’s house on Dec 30, for dinner this time. This is becoming a common theme, but I didn’t take photos. Goal for 2015, remember to take photos! It was a lot…

One of the highlights of Maddie’s visit to Chicago was playing the Bop game with Miles.  It was hilarious!!

Happy new year! We had a great time last night at the Groves’ annual new year’s party. I don’t have any photos of it but the theme was France so people brought food that was mostly on-theme (I brought a very American sounding “Awesome Mushroom Pate, Theresa brought those cookies…

After Maddie’s nap on Christmas, we took a trip downtown to check out the new Maggie Daley Park. It’s just east of Millennium Park, so we parked underground by Michigan Avenue and walked up. The head sculptures in Millennium Park look very cool at night. We walked over the newly…

Maddie adapted to the cold weather very quickly. After less than one day of politely declining a coat, she quickly discovered that wearing a coat and hat is really a good idea outside in Chicago in winter! Here she is at Smith Park all dressed up warm On Christmas morning,…