today we helped our friends james and jana load up a big moving van as they leave chicago for a new job and home. most of our friends are here temporarily like us, trying to finish a postgraduate program. it’s a great opportunity to meet different kinds of people from all over the country, but read more
we went to frankfort, kentucky for a wedding this weekend. after an early start, we stopped for coffee with our roadtrip mates sanyu and kristi, and then took a short rest in lebanon. frankfort is a quaint and historic town, dating to the late 1800′s. after the wedding rehearsal, we were treated to a dinner read more
thursday is dump the pump day. support improving the environment and conserving fuel by going green and taking the bus if possible.
i am starting to spend way too much time glued to the computer. first, this blog, which was fine, but now i’ve been sucked into the vortex called facebook, and then today i subscribed to skype. can’t really remember what i did before all this. oh wait i remember, bravo tv… i do like our read more
we’ve noticed that people like to sell various items from the middle of the road to passing cars. i suppose newspapers isn’t that surprising, but so far we’ve also seen CD’s, cotton candy, sparkly pom-pom things, and bottled water. never know what you might need on the road i guess.
meet our HPAC (hyde park alliance church) family. we are very grateful for this small but loving community.
i went to the ocean’s thirteen premiere in chicago! well, i didn’t watch the movie (you had to pay $2000 towards ‘Not On Our Watch’, a charity to support Darfur), but i did stand outside for three hours (i know, i’m sad) to see the stars. i did feel a bit ridiculous while waiting in read more
look, it’s R2-D2 and C-3PO! oh wait, it’s only joe and a uspsjedimaster mailbox. now if only the force would be with all our missing packages…
sorry, bad pun. for a relatively uncommon last name, there sure are a lot of foods named after it. it’s making me hungry…
yesterday was another busy day of sightseeing with louisa. we started off with a makeup makeover (in prep for lou’s wedding) and then had a lovely lunch at the top of the john hancock building: tuna ahi burgers, yum! there were some interesting street performers… it was quite busy in front of the buckingham fountain read more