This morning we stopped by Campus House for a nice visit of my old church. Today we drove up to my (Josh) favorite city – Chi-town. Our first stop was over at Stan and Nicole’s place in Oak Park. I hadn’t seen Stan in many many years and I ran across him on Facebook. We had a nice little afternoon visit and got to meet their a little past a year old son Shawn (Sean?) It was nice to catch up –we’ll have to visit them again sometime.
From there we drove downtown to catch the tail-end of Bluesfest. Content and food-wise this has to be one of the best street-festivals in existence. First order of business was to get some Chicago-style pizza. After putting a couple extra digits on our cholesterol numbers, we headed to the main stage to listen to B.B. King, King of the Blues.
B.B. King is amazing. He plays unconsciously almost and can sing with the best of the 82 year olds out there. It was nice to hear him, but the environment was not very pleasant. It was very muddy from quite a bit of rain. Additionally, there were people chain-smoking all around us who were generally drunk, obnoxious, and seemingly inattentive to the King. I have to say, it sort of spoiled the evening somewhat.
From there we drove out to the burbs to visit with Beth and Tom in Barrington, IL. They were already asleep for the most part so we’d meet with them tomorrow.
The next day we slept in and relaxed a little. We met up with Beth and Tom in the evening and had a great night. They took us to a great place for dinner that served amazing breakfast food. I had an omelet with some fantastic Jalapeno cheese. From there we went back home and played some Lego Star Wars on the Xbox which was pretty fun. Thanks Beth and Tom! Hope to see you again real soon!
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