Last year my birthday was on a Monday, and I made pie and took it to a meeting. This year it was a Tuesday. We went to Chicago, looked at a new apartment, and went to baseball with the John and Megan. We picked them up at John’s apartment and a few of the guys, John’s high school friends, were visiting, before they went to the game, too, so got to say hi to them. We stayed the night in Chicago, got up and I did a little work while Mark went and signed the lease for the new place ( we liked it), and we stopped at the WI State Fair on the way home.
Here’re the pics – I’m still having trouble getting portfolio slideshow to show captions, so I guess I’ll just list them. Then if there are subsequent upgrades to the software, it’ll all be doubled up …
- Fixed myself up with gladiola iPhone wallpaper while I was riding the train down to Chicago
- Birthday cupcakes that we bought while walking from the train to the apartment
- Birthday cupcakes eaten – the confetti cake was a little dry
- Chicago dog & fries at the Brewers vs. Cubs game. My first time at Wrigley. I sorta forgot what it’s like to be fans of the visiting team – when the majority of the crowd is booing, you’re clapping & cheering. There were a few Brewer fans in front of us – note the blue t-shirts behind my dog.
- My ticket to the state fair – Senior price for first time. We rode the funicular, looked at horses and pigs, and prize pies, cheeses, and quilts – but mostly we ate.
- Breakfast-all-day-tater tots, with egg, bacon, cilantro, Siracha, and cheese whiz. We also split an ear of corn, and a half butterflied porkchop sandwich.
- Cookie monsters in a bakery case
- Cookie monsters in a bakery case
- Cream puffs behind glass – there were too many old people behaving badly at the fair – like taking pics of their grandkids in the cream puff line for example – license for me to take a pic of the puffs. We got ours to go, and are about to go eat them in front of the TV. Downton Abbey special recorded on Sunday.
- Cute card from Lesleigh, with cute cat sticker
