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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Brother Visit Part 3

I'll text this one up too.

After our time on the beach, we spent some time at home where my sister-in-law had just gotten out of bed. I envy her.

This is Lola. My sister-in-law had her since before my brother met her. She looks grouchy, but really she just loves on her own terms. She treated me just like family in that she was nice enough to vom while I was there. On the one small 3 by 2 foot rug they have in the place. Everything else is tile, linoleum or wood.

This is Pancake, whom my brother found in a park one day. Declawed, spayed, and abandoned. She has the loudest meow quite possibly ever.

Played some video games from our youth. Yes. We beat one of the helicopter levels, but didn't get past the fourth level on expert. Also, Big Al is a snarky ass.

After going out to dinner somewhere my mom freaked out about in the past, we stopped for ice cream on the way back. I had key lime, my brother had a malt and my sister-in-law had blueberry pie. Very delicious.

The next day, we went out for breakfast, played some more games, and then dinked around the city before I took the 3:00ish train back to Milwaukee. This is the storm hanging out over the lake as I was leaving town. The photo doesn't do it justice. Also, totally picked the wrong side of the train. It was all sun.

Brother Visit Part 2

I'll text up these posts soon. I promise. I'm just so tired tonight!

See, I told you I'd text these up. After our Flugtag plans were cancelled, we walked around the beach, including through some water.

Sorry for the veiny feet. Hopefully there aren't any crazy foot-fetishist out there that found my blog because of them. I'm thin, and I run a lot, so it just happens if I get hot. Plus, I was sitting on firm concrete, so it was slightly cutting off my circulation. Anyway, it was so windy that the waves at the pier (I would say it was about 12 feet down) were almost hitting our feet. Yes, I need to repaint my toenails, but as it was just my brother, I didn't really care.

More sitting on the beach. The sky was such a gorgeous blue. Also, can you tell we're related in this picture? I mean, there are some differences but wow.

I was bending down to take a picture of a popsicle stick with a riddle on it, but accidentally had my camera on front facing. It turned into a funny shot, so I went with it. And yes, we did haul the backpack around the entire time.

Here's the popsicle stick. Hardy-har-har.

Finally, mini-golf at the public course near Diversey. I think my brother won, but we both had fun. After that we headed back up to my brother's apartment by simply hopping on one of the CTA buses. I've gotta say, the public transportation there is super convenient where he lives. We may or may not have kept singing "putt, putt, in the butt" the entire time we were playing mini golf.

Brother Visit Part 1

I went down to Chicago on the weekend on September 8th. I got up at 5:30 to make the 6:15am train. We were going to watch the Redbull Flugtag, but sadly it was cancelled due to high winds. We still had a fantastic time!

For some reason Dan and I have always met up in the awesome room in the old part of the station. I've always loved the way the ceiling looks. And on such a gorgeous, mostly cloudless morning (before 8am, I'm barely at work at that time), I managed to catch a wonderful picture.

Before we knew the Flugtag was cancelled, we made a stop off for coffee at one of Dan's favorite coffee shops near his work, Lavazza. It was very tasty. The heart on top made me smile.

We saw this sign on our walk to Flugtag. We both cracked up, as the rocks plus small plants continued on for another ten feet, and that was the extent of the "lawn."

Once we found out Flugtag was cancelled, we took a walk on the beach just past the staging ground and sat down above the waves and had some brother-sister talk time. I really miss my brother and I should go see him more often.