Chicago celebrations

Chicago was great! My parents, grandparents, aunts, uncle, and cousins were all there to celebrate the 4th of July...Bushhouse style. It was a little unorthadox with Maria and Jordan being gone and one family left partway through the celebration to drive to the other side of their family, but we had a good time.

Things we did:
-Experienced a Chicago building architecture tour
-Ate dinner at the Taste of Chicago
-Saw downtown Chicago's fine fireworks display (synchronized with a live orchestra playing songs like the 1812 Overture, the Imperial March, and the Stars and Stripes Forever.)
-Watched Pixar's Ratatouille (not quite as good as Cars, but beautiful storyline and creativity!)
-Enjoyed Wheaton's 4th of July parade


My flight made it back to Philly safely--despite the weather's attempts to keep me from seeing Sarah. Only some flights were being allowed into the airport due to heavy rain, and fortuntely, mine was one of them! On top of it, we got in early! Sarah was waiting for me at the airport--even arriving 30 minutes early and secretly parking in the short term lot to surprise me! What a gal. After not seeing each other for over two weeks, you'd think it had been years! Amazing what tricks your heart can play on you. As a nice treat for us, the Philadelphia fireworks were postponed due to rain until we came back from the airport. Sarah and I just stood in the street with a bunch of other people and enjoyed the show.

In other celebrations on the 4th, some people ate a lot of hot dogs. 66 in 12 minutes?!? That's 33 feet of hot dogs. The average American eats 65 in a year. Wowzers.

The Cubs have won 10 of their last 12 games. Watch out!