A whole separate post about our vacation. We spent 10 days in the mid-West visiting friends and family in Wisconsin and Indiana, with a day trip to Illinois. Here are some highlights from the trip!
October 9th, my birthday! The first weekend in WI, hubby and I stayed with our friends Kim and Nigel. On Friday, Kim, Brian and I went to lunch with Crystal (above) at Rock Bottom Brewery. Our appetizer was fried cheese curds and from the the two ladies who know about such things, we were told these were good fried cheese curds. Yea!
Saturday, we all got up and headed into Milwaukee to race in Al's Run, an 8k that benefited the local Children's Hospital. This is hubby and I pre-race getting ready to hit the bathrooms and warm up before the start. We had a great run and I enjoyed seeing downtown Milwaukee through running. I finished in 1 hour 7 minutes and 48 seconds. I was the last of our group to finish, but I did finish 5 minutes faster than I thought I would. Yea me!
After the race, we all headed to the Miller Brewing Factory for the tour (and free samples!). This is Kim and I hugging the Miller Lite bottle. LOL! It's silly, but after running 5 miles in the freezing cold and drinking beer, you tend to get silly. It was a fun day. :-)
Sunday, we headed to Kim's bar to watch the Eagles play. After the game, we tried out hand at darts and realized we had NO idea how the darn thing was scoring! Kim came in first and I came in second with the boys trailing behind. ;-) And since I am moving so fast in this photo, the darts must have been some good exercise!
Monday, we headed to Indiana to spend the week with hubby's grandparents. We did take Wednesday to head into Chicago to visit with a friend and her son. These are our train tickets into the city. We almost didn't get back that night! We parked at one train station, but thought we were at another. I took a photo of the sign for the train station and that's the only reason we didn't get left at the wrong one! Photography is good for something!
Hubby and I at the Sears...er...Willis Tower in Chicago. They added what are called ledges to the tower so you can stand on clear plastic 107 stores above the ground and look straight down. Thanks to our friend, here's a photo of us standing on the ledge. It's kinda freaky the first time you go out, but easier the more you do it (and don't go falling to your death).
From the Sears Tower, we headed to Navy Pier. As you can tell, it was a tad chilly and overcast this day. I brought along my gorilla tripod and was able to get a nice photo of us and the skyline in the background. It was nice to have a good photo of us rather than just the self-portraits we usually get. No worries though, we took plenty of those while we were there!
And while on Navy Pier, we decided to go on the Ferris Wheel. It was COLD! We had great views of the city and Lake Michigan. It would have been better had the day not been freezing and overcast, but it was fun to go up. It was one of the things I wanted to do while in Chicago and even though it was really cold, we did it.
On Friday, we left Indiana and headed back to WI to spend the weekend with hubby's aunt and uncle. On the way, we made two stops. The first was the Jelly Belly Factory, of which all we had time for was the gift shop. ;-) The other was the Mars Cheese Castle. We each got to visit something fun. LOL! Here I am outside the Jelly Belly Gift Shop.
On Saturday, we got tickets to attend a Wisconsin Badgers game, so we did. LOL! I take a lot of random pictures of hubby, so this is him getting me back. He was sneaky as I had NO idea he had taken it until I saw it on the camera later. LOL! It was another cold day in WI and our seats were in the shade, making it even colder. Ugh. It took a long time to warm up after THAT game!
Our last self-portrait of the vacation. On Sunday, we went to the Horicon Marsh Preserve with hubby's aunt and uncle. Behind us is the marsh lands. LOL! It was cold that day too, but honestly, it was the sunniest and somewhat warmish day we had the whole trip! And I must say, the weather didn't improve when we got home. It was just as cold and rainy here when we got back as it was on vacation. Guess it really is fall now.
Wow! A Whole Month With No Postings!
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Well, that's just wrong. I didn't realize I hadn't updated in so long. I feel kinda bad now, not that I think many people are still hanging around, but...I'm going to share some photos from Oct. and there's a bunch as we went on vacation. :-) Here we go!
Brian and I headed to Philadelphia to see the Eagles take on the Kansas City Chiefs at the end of September. It was a fairly nice day, though it was kinda wet out. We tailgated a bit with our friend's Mike and his brother Dan in the parking lot before heading into the game. We had nose bleed seats, but we could see the whole field, so it was ok. The Eagles won and we had a really fun day, though long.
After the game. :-) With the field in the back ground. Go Eagles!
The following weekend involved a full two days of baseball. Saturday we headed to Camden Yards to see the Orioles play. Saturday night was Oktoberfest and we scored free Orioles steins (which turned out to be plastic, eh.) and saw a nice O's win. The O's went on to win Sunday as well, keeping them from hitting the 100 loss mark this year. Yea O's!
Well, this is a tad blurry! Guess that's what happens when you forget to zoom out. LOL! I have a habit of zooming in for a photo, then deciding to take a self-portrait...and this is the result. What I just noticed about this photo is we are framing the ground's keeper at CBP very nicely. :-) The Phils won this game, though it meant nothing in the standings overall, they had already clinched the NL East earlier in the month, but it was good to go to a win. And with the Phils win, we were batting 1.000 for the weekend in baseball.
