We had a lovely thanksgiving celebration at Debbie, Jeff and Maddie’s place in Naperville. We were 11 people total, with Bronwyn and her sister Kaylee joining us this year. We had a great time chatting, playing Nintendo switch sports, eating the salmon, turkey and many yummy side dishes. After dinner…

On our last full day in Quebec, we decided to walk near the ramparts or old city wall, and also visit the Jean-Baptiste neighborhood. Back to the map! See the red circle where we stayed? The walls are a shaded area just to the left of that, following around the…

On Monday afternoon we took an Uber out to Siberia Spa in the forested mountain area outside of Quebec City. It was so nice – with many features like previous spas, like a series of buildings and pools all outdoors, and you can stay as long as you like, going…

On Monday, we set out to explore the Petit-Champlain neighborhood. A quick description from the tourist office describes the neighborhood as having picturesque pedestrian streets (confirmed!) and as being the first permanent French settlement in North America, over 400 years ago. It’s a lively area to stroll around, day or…

There are no direct flights from Chicago to Quebec City this time of year, so we flew by way of Toronto. Here’s our maple-leafed air Canada wing over Lake Ontario as we approached for a landing. Love flying over the great lakes! And also thought we’d start off with a…

We tried out the new Guinness open gate bar in the Fulton market area. Our analysis was that it has a fun vibe, cool design and really good Guinness and food. It’s very table based though so felt more like a restaurant than pub, interesting that it was set up…

Ok the new place is here! We moved the blog to this new site. Hope you like it! On the familiar side, we visited the Indiana dunes national park recently. Really pretty fall colors and perfect temperatures!

There’s quite a bit to report on from August! We’ve already posted photos of Finland (first week of August) and the air and water show (weekend in mid-August), so now I’m going to go back to the second week of the month and go right through to Sept 1 for…

This weekend we had front row seats at the annual Chicago Air and Water Show, one of the biggest airshows in the world! Because Liam works at the big water purification plant by Navy Pier, all employees and their families are able to enter the facility to view the show…