Last Saturday night was our last night in Chicago. We packed all day and most of the evening, but snuck out for a little bit for one last time in the city as residents. We headed downtown at about 9pm to go watch some fireworks on the lake front. On the way back we stopped at the fountains in Millennium Park and I got some cool photos there.
They blocked off some streets after the fireworks so the massive amounts of people could exit.
Millennium Park Fountains
John and I arrived in Omaha on Monday evening and were greeted by 11 family members who were ready to help us unload our truck. Thank God for the help because we were exhausted. It's was an 8 hour drive with John driving the truck and towing a car, and me following behind in another. I actually do have a lot of photos to edit and post from our last night in Chicago as well as some of our new surroundings, but for now you only get three.
Here's an abreviated version of our trip.
Outside our condo in Chicago
Our truck pulling up to our apartment in Omaha, Nebraska
Outside our apartment building in Omaha (horse stables and grazing field to the left, apartment complex to the right)
More to come soon!
Thursday's Theme at Picture This is "trip", so this post is my contribution.
No, I do not have time to be posting this right now. Yes, I should be packing. Leave me alone.
Yesterday John and I spent equal amounts of time working and playing. When we woke up John informed me that he "needed a big breakfast." So we walked about 5 blocks to a nearby diner.
On the way there , we saw this. Someone filled their entire yard with one of those bouncy things. I'm pretty sure they had to measure to find out if it would fit because it filled every square inch of their yard.
Dogg on a porch
Breakfast awaits
Smile courtesy of coffee, eggs, bacon, hashbrowns and pancakes
On the way home. Posing by a cool brick wall.
After breakfast we went home and packed like hell for about 4 hours and decided that we deserved to go to dinner and a movie. So we went and grabbed some Thai food and saw the movie "Once".
We sat at the front of the restaurant at Joy's Noodles and Rice by the open doors and the light was really beautiful (if not blinding).
Wow, that was a lot of photos to post in one, but I don't know when I'll have a chance to post in the coming days. But I'll try my best!
John's sister Lori visited us from Omaha this weekend. On Saturday Kaido, Laura, and Julia invited us up to their family's lake house for the day. We had a great time and I took a million photos of the beautiful Julia. Here are some favorites:
On the boat
Yesterday John and I headed down to the Old Town neighborhood for the Old Town Art Festival. Mitch and Kathleen took a break from their bike ride and met up with us for a while. I had my camera and John had our little point-and-shoot and we had a "camera-off" at John's request. The results:
Mine:
Serious Cyclists
Corn
John's:
Boomer the Bird
Potato Pancakes
John was attempting to get a nice "street scene" photo of this girl. But he didn't notice that she is totally showing her...um...undergarments until I downloaded it and showed it to him on-screen. I think she's had a few too many. Whoops!
This little pug was completely asleep and apparently didn't care that she was being carried like a rag doll.
That's all! I think John has a great eye (I taught him everything he knows) and took some really good shots. I call it a tie.
I have quite a few pictures to post from the weekend, but I'll start with Friday. On Friday night John and I went on a cruise on the Spirit of Chicago. We went for a little end-of-the-school-year party with about 25 of his co-workers and their significant others.
The view of the skyline was gorgeous from Lake Michigan.
Oh, and there were entertainers...
...who volunteered John to join the Village People for a rendition of YMCA (that's him in the back wearing a cowboy hat).
Oh. What's that you say? You want video evidence of it?
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Well done Johnny
More to come tomorrow on how the rest of the weekend panned out.
My mom and stepdad Joe came to visit this past weekend. We headed down to Millenium Park on Saturday and, of course, visited the Bean (or Cloud Gate). Here's a picture of my mom taking a picture of the bean:
Here's a funky one that might be confusing if you didn't know what it was. It looks like a bubble. 
John and I went to the lake on Sunday for a little while. I shared the camera a couple of times so John could get me on the "other side"
