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So I guess some of you do still remember me over here at this poor neglected little blog!

So maybe you are wondering, so Jen, just what exactly have you been up to all this time?

Well I can easily say many many adventures! I’ll share some of them with you, but i must note that none of these are my photos.

At the begnning of May, a friend from the beloved Philly Crew, was visiting Chicago on official business. Miss Robin, of the blog What is Robin Up To? Asked me if i’d like to accompany her to a taping of Chicago Public Radio’s Weekly Quiz Show Wait Wait….Don’t Tell Me! How could i say no?

(photo by robin)



It was a lot of fun, a long taping, and a LOT of laughing. Robin convinced some poor soul in front of us to take our picture.



And after the show the Host and Score keeper will even humor everyone and let you have your picture taken!

Here we are with Carl Kasell



Here we are with Peter Sagal



Thank you Robin for sharing a ticket with me, for the company afterwards for good eats up on the North Side, and for making me laugh so much that day! You can check out her blog for short video clips of the show too!

What else have i been up to? Well a major thing has been this….

(photo by Nathaniel Davis)



That would be Nat’s new car. In Decemeber his car’s heat went out when it was below zero. He needed brakes and feared something was wrong with the clutch when we’d hear that weird rattling sound. So the first week of January he bought the Cooper. It is a fun and beautiful little car. Nat loves it so much, we go driving every weekend. Yes, every weekend. We have learned many things about rich people while driving along Sheridan up to the North Shore. (This is a really really windy road that drives along Lake Michigan and all of the ultra expensive real estate) We’ve learned that rich people like their retaining walls, no one does their own yardwork, 3 car garages are uncool and 6 car garages are where it’s at, they either have chandeliers and lamps or track lighting, and some of these people have living quarters attached to THEIR GATES.

While doing all this driving we’ve happened upon some weird stuff. Like Nat asking me what is this thing jutting out of the sky in the western suburbs of chicago?

(all photos by Nathaniel)



I shrugged my shoulder’s and said SKI JUMP?

Nat drove toward it and turns out…I WAS RIGHT….I KNOW? You are thinking Chicago…suburbs of chicago…ski jump? what the hell? right me to!





Then while driving along the Fox River we happened upon an just ended Civil War battle!



Then we happened upon an old Rail Car Museum (that was closed for the season, so we stayed outside the chains and took pictures)





We’ve also stopped at IKEA to buy poang chairs and got rid of the old couch in nat’s apt. Here’s what it looks like when you pack up the Cooper.



While we were there the sky looked really weird so i made nat stop to take pictures with his wide angle





So i’m sorry for the long break, and this long visual post. But thought you might like to see some of these adventures. Now that it’s not zero degrees i need to start carrying my camera with me non-stop again.

Posted by Jennifer on 05/21 at 09:50 AM ♥ Comments (9)