A Fun-filled Weekend

Keith and I visited our friend Fern who lives in Evanston this weekend.  It was a beautiful day!  We walked along the lake and went out to lunch at Siam Pasta.  Thai food is one of our newer favorite things to eat.  This place had a great lunch special with a taster and then an entre for only $6.95!  I had spring rolls and pad thai.  As much as I always want to try new things... I end up getting pad thai because I love it so much.  haha  This restaurant had an rooftop seating area, which is where we ate.

Afterward we walked around downtown Evanston. I got a smoothie from Red Mango.  It was a wonderful day!


Sunday we had our fantasy football draft.  Some friends came over to hang, even though the draft is online.  It's fun to be in the same room while the draft is going on. 

Keith and Kevin are doing some last minute research.

All in all, a wonderful weekend!

Birthday Celebrations

On Saturday we went to Navy Pier with Keith's family to celebrate both of our birthdays.  Keith, his mom and I rode the Ferris Wheel.  I was looking forward to it because when we went in the winter it was not running due to rain.

a view from Navy Pier

 Keith and I in front of the Ferris Wheel

View from the top

We also took an architectural boat tour, which was very very good.  I recommend it.

Trump Tower as viewed from the boat

sneak peak at the Sears/Willis Tower

On Sunday, my actual birthday, we celebrated by going paddle boating at Independence Grove with my mom & sister.  After that, we went out for Thai food for lunch.  Mmmm.

Then I opened presents from Keith.  One was wrapped in our monster bag.  I pointed the bag out to Keith at the store once, about 4 years ago.  He ended up using it to wrap my gift in, and we have been wrapping each other's gifts with it ever since.  

One of those packages contained SingStar for the PS3, which is what I have been spending my free time on ever since.

I had a very wonderful birthday.  It was a fantastic way to kick off this 25th year!

Happy Fourth of July!

I've decided to try and keep up with this blog again.

This was the weekend of the Fourth of July.  We did some pretty summery things, like getting sundaes & malts, watching The Sandlot, walking around the Mundelein Community Days & getting lunch at the Mundelein Munch.  We swam in our neighborhood pool and it was quite refreshing.

Of course, we also saw the Mundelein fireworks, which we wonderful as always.  The finale was really good this year.  Very cohesive.

It's been a great long weekend!