Chicago

This past week Jer and I traveled to Chicago to visit my relatives and attend my cousin Julie's wedding.

My cousin's Karen and Susie, and little cuz Mattie start the jab fest at Karen's house. Later Karen and Susie took Jer and I out to an Irish pub for a Blue Moon and nachos (served with french fries, instead of tortilla chips- interesting and yummy.) Karen and I stayed up until 3 chatting and reminiscing, while my philosophical hubby and Susan stayed up until 5am! Probably not the best of moves before a busy wedding day, but- hey, we only get to see each other once in a Blue Moon.

Julie's wedding was amazing! She looked sooooo beautiful! She wore her hair in long blond ringlets down her back; with a long strapless light-beige colored gown that drug a couple of feet behind her. The bodice of the gown had tiny gems and embroidery throughout and the back had a cris-cross sash. The ceremony was at a neat outdoor garden that had its own chapel. The weather was perfect- 75 degrees (It was actually cold at night, and on the last day of the trip- and I didn't bring a jacket.) She walked down the aisle to two musicians, I believe one was a violinist. In a nutshell- great ceremony!

Susie and Chris

Karen, Matt, Mattie, and GiGi

Jer and I

Jer, Aunt Lois, Karen, Stevie, Susie, and Mattie

Chris and Julie

Mom, Dad, Matt, Jer, Karen, Aunt Lois, Uncle Dave, Cathy, Mattie, GiGi and a few others who didn't get into the picture ( Julie, Chris, and Uncle Steve) took a walking tour of Chicago. We started at Millennium Park (dedicated in 2004 by Mayor Daily:) and saw some of its attractions, such as the giant bean sculpture, the flower gardens, and a neat tall glass bricked water sculpture that projects people's faces onto it and spits out water. Later we did a Chicago river tour and learned about their buildings. We also saw the Chicago library and Chicago Tribute building that contains rocks and stones from around the world in its' outer facade- neat. Jer also was able to get his wish- to eat Chicago sausage and pizza. What a wonderful time we had!

The 3 Sadowski brothers- Joe, Steve, and Dave

Thank you Karen for letting us stay at your place, showing us around (although I hated that traffic!), and staying up to 3 am to talk shop with me:) I love you.

Side note: Victoria and Bella stayed with Grandma Carol and Grandpa Dick for those 4 days- Thank you so much! They never once said that they missed us until we got home again. Yeah! Bitter sweat:) However, they've been glued to me all day.