Category Archives: Travel

Christina & Tomo

We drove out to Dallas for Christina & Tomo’s wedding.  I can’t believe we’re already at anniversary #3!  How time flies!  They now have a beautiful baby girl and another one on the way!  They are two of the sweetest … Read the rest of this entry

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Butterfly Garden

One really cool thing about having your wedding at the Nature Museum in Chicago, is that your guests can go in the Butterfly Garden during the cocktail hour. The garden is really cool, with big window walls that reminded me … Read the rest of this entry

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Chicago-Friday, the wedding

Friday in Chicago was Grey & Eric’s wedding. It was awesome! Their vows were ridiculously sweet. They are both lawyers, so the two judges they work for officiated. It was at the Nature Museum near Lincoln Park Zoo. We had … Read the rest of this entry

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Chicago Pics-Thursday with Lauren

Thursday Lauren was in town.  Our first order of business was to eat.  That took an hour (to pick a place).  We started walking south and kept passing places that didn’t call our names.  We saw “The Blue Peacock” from … Read the rest of this entry

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Chicago Pics-Wednesday with Gilly

Boy did we have fun being tourists with Gilly.  We saw the Museum of Modern Art (and got in at the student rate since they were packing up everything on the first floor.  You could still see it, just from … Read the rest of this entry

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Chicago Pics-Tuesday, our anniversary

We spent our anniversary in Chicago.  What, you say, did we do on our anniversary?  NOTHING!!  It was glorious.  We just pretended to live in Chicago.  We slept in.  We played with Cuthbert (Gilly & Jerry’s cat).  We went to … Read the rest of this entry

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Chicago Pics-Monday with Andrea

Andrea took us to the Lincoln Park Zoo.  It was a neat zoo.  Way better than the Knoxville zoo (sorry Knoxville zoo).  Then we just happened upon this great little lily pond in the middle of the city.  You walk … Read the rest of this entry

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Chicago Pics–Sunday with Randy

I’m trying to get caught up, so here are some of those photos I promised.                             So as a refresher.  We hung out with Randy on a … Read the rest of this entry

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Butterfly Gap Photos

OK, so I promised photos and here they are! I cannot say enough good things about Butterfly Gap. It’s beautiful, peaceful, not ridiculously expensive, secluded, and the breakfast rocked my world! And without further ado, I think the pictures will … Read the rest of this entry

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More about Chicago

Gillian took us around town Wednesday. We started with a tasty breakfast of scrabbled eggs and biscuits, then off to see the sites! We rode the train downtown and checked out the CMA. It was quite the blast from the … Read the rest of this entry

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