The Windy City

Twice last week I traveled to Chicago. The first time was with my mom and her small group for a fun birthday celebration for her. It was fun to meet more of her friends and hear some of their stories. I don't have any pictures since I didn't have my camera with me. You'll just have to imagine pictures of mom and her friends laughing with their hair blowing perfectly in the wind.

Later in the week Kerwyn and I spent a day in Chicago wandering around. We had lunch at Harry Carey's (great restaurant), wandered around, saw a couple of wedding parties taking pictures, and took in Navy Pier. We even had a very enjoyable, although short, ride on the ferris wheel. I do have pictures from that trip because Kerwyn is very good about taking pictures.

Neither trip had a very smooth train experience. The first trip was marred by a train sliding door smashing my face in. That might be a bit dramatic but it hit my temple hard enough to leave me pretty dazed for a day or so and with a nice swollen and tender area around my right eye. On the second trip Kerwyn and I were enjoying a peaceful trip when they made us get off the train in Gary, Indiana of all places to get onto a bus for a few minutes and then reload onto a different train a few miles down the track that apparently was undergoing repairs. You can imagine it wasn't a quick process to unload what ended up being 4 very full busloads of people off of and back onto a train (hence the picture of Kerwyn with the thumbs-up in the very classicly decorated bus). Either way it was a fun couple of days in Chicago.