Monday, September 21, 2009
METALLICA!!!
While I was in Indianapolis last week for customer meetings, I worked in a little fun. Thursday night Metallica was in Indianapolis and of course, I had tickets. My fellow Metallica compatriots Clint, Halverson and Mr. H came into town to catch the show too. Before the show, we found a bar close to the Conseco Fieldhouse and enjoyed some pre-concert cocktails to wet our appetitie for 2 straight hours of hard rockin' fun! It was, as usual, a great show! I've seen Metallica too many times to count now and every time, I leave the show wanting more and looking forward to the next time I can catch them.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Food, Glorious Food!
Owen and I went on a food tasting and cultural walking tour on Saturday in the Bucktown/Wicker Park neighborhoods in Chicago with our friends Jason and Terry. Mother Nature cooperated and we had a beautiful day! We met our guide, Ben, at George's Hot Dogs around noon to start the tour. As could be expected our first food item was a Chicago style hot dog. I have to admit this was the first Chicago style hot dog I ever had. I'm a ketchup kinda girl so I never have the true Chicago style dog.
After George's we went to Hot Chocolate (http://www.hotchocolatechicago.com/) and had one of the best chocolate drinks I've ever tasted. I don't remember what it was called or what was in it but it was fabulous! It was served with a house made marshmallow that was pretty good too. As if we weren't stuffed already we went to the third stop, Goddess & Grocer. We had a taste of a antipasto salad that was really good too. Luckily after that stop we did quite a bit of walking to work up our appetite again. We were already pretty stuffed and we had three more places to go. The fourth stop was Piece (http://www.piecechicago.com/flash/index.html) which is a restaurant and brewery. We had a taste of pizza and some of their own brewed beer. The next stop was Sultan's Market (http://chicagofalafel.com/) which is a Middle Eastern food store and deli. Owen had his first falafel sandwhich! The last place was iCream (http://www.icreamcafe.com/). This isn't your typical ice cream store. They make your ice cream on the spot using liquid nitrogen. Pretty cool to watch them make it and it was yummy!
After three hours of eating and walking we weren't ready to go home yet. We stayed in the
Bucktown area and found a bar where we sat outside and enjoyed great weather and good friends. It was a great time people watching too! :-)
After George's we went to Hot Chocolate (http://www.hotchocolatechicago.com/) and had one of the best chocolate drinks I've ever tasted. I don't remember what it was called or what was in it but it was fabulous! It was served with a house made marshmallow that was pretty good too. As if we weren't stuffed already we went to the third stop, Goddess & Grocer. We had a taste of a antipasto salad that was really good too. Luckily after that stop we did quite a bit of walking to work up our appetite again. We were already pretty stuffed and we had three more places to go. The fourth stop was Piece (http://www.piecechicago.com/flash/index.html) which is a restaurant and brewery. We had a taste of pizza and some of their own brewed beer. The next stop was Sultan's Market (http://chicagofalafel.com/) which is a Middle Eastern food store and deli. Owen had his first falafel sandwhich! The last place was iCream (http://www.icreamcafe.com/). This isn't your typical ice cream store. They make your ice cream on the spot using liquid nitrogen. Pretty cool to watch them make it and it was yummy!
After three hours of eating and walking we weren't ready to go home yet. We stayed in the
Bucktown area and found a bar where we sat outside and enjoyed great weather and good friends. It was a great time people watching too! :-)
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Home Improvement / Boat Ride / NICU Follow-up
HOME IMPROVEMENT
Well, I haven't been good at keeping the blog updated so we have a whole bunch of stuff wrapped into one entry. As all you homeowners know there is always something that needs to be done around the house. Whether it is a small project or a big one it is always something. Unfortunately, it seems like the majority of our projects are the big ones. We have been talking about getting our fence replaced because the one that we inherited with the house wasn't exactly maintained well. As you can see it was falling down...
if not already down!!
We decided that it was time for a new fence. One home improvement project down - God only knows how many to go.
BOAT RIDE
We went up to the lake this weekend to enjoy some well deserved summer weather. "Captain" Kyle was nice enough to drive us around the whole weekend in Kyle & Teri's boat. Charlotte wasn't overly excited about the life vest that was almost as big as she was.
Kyri got driving lessons from her Dad.
Charlotte loved to feel the wind in her hair...
So did Teri
NICU FOLLOW-UP
Charlotte had her 9 month (corrected age) follow up visit today. She is now 20 lbs 1.9 oz and 29 1/3" inches. Since Charlotte already goes for physical and occupational therapy I wasn't too concerned about that part of the follow up but there was still the speech therapist to talk to. Charlotte does have some hesitation with new foods and the speech therapist gave us some tips on how to get Charlotte more curious with food. She also gave us tips on how to help encourage Charlotte to talk a little more. Maybe by our next visit in December we'll have a little chatter box!
Well, I haven't been good at keeping the blog updated so we have a whole bunch of stuff wrapped into one entry. As all you homeowners know there is always something that needs to be done around the house. Whether it is a small project or a big one it is always something. Unfortunately, it seems like the majority of our projects are the big ones. We have been talking about getting our fence replaced because the one that we inherited with the house wasn't exactly maintained well. As you can see it was falling down...
if not already down!!
We decided that it was time for a new fence. One home improvement project down - God only knows how many to go.
BOAT RIDE
We went up to the lake this weekend to enjoy some well deserved summer weather. "Captain" Kyle was nice enough to drive us around the whole weekend in Kyle & Teri's boat. Charlotte wasn't overly excited about the life vest that was almost as big as she was.
Kyri got driving lessons from her Dad.
Charlotte loved to feel the wind in her hair...
So did Teri
NICU FOLLOW-UP
Charlotte had her 9 month (corrected age) follow up visit today. She is now 20 lbs 1.9 oz and 29 1/3" inches. Since Charlotte already goes for physical and occupational therapy I wasn't too concerned about that part of the follow up but there was still the speech therapist to talk to. Charlotte does have some hesitation with new foods and the speech therapist gave us some tips on how to get Charlotte more curious with food. She also gave us tips on how to help encourage Charlotte to talk a little more. Maybe by our next visit in December we'll have a little chatter box!
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