ZOO!

Erik took me to the Brookfield Zoo to celebrate my birth. We saw a dolphin show that was only a lame 20 min long. It was fun to watch the dolphins, but they didn't have them perform for very long. Oh well. My favorite animal was the polar bears. The mom came out of the cave just as we walked up. Then it jumped into the water. I want a baby polar bear. There was a million people at the zoo, more people than animals. We bought a powerade for $3.50, and it was only a 20 oz. isn't that ridiculous??? I think so, but we were thirsty.This week i worked at the Kane County Fair. It was mostly boring, but everyday my supervisor and I would go and buy ice cream cones for a dollar. The Fair had elephant rides for 5 dollars, but i didn't go. I also saw some cute baby potbelly pigs and baby goats there. It has been an animal week.

Here is a picture of the tie that JoAnn bought for Devon. We have not mailed it to him, so don't mention that he is going to get the best tie of his life.

Young at heart!

Hurrah!! After trying all morning long I finally got this picture to post to the blog. This was taken on Grandpa Lamberts 91st birthday. He was making a bridge for Abbigail to go under by kneeling on the ottoman and resting on the couch. He had to stay that way for a while because Abbigail went under too fast and it was hard to get a picture of her. Pretty good for a 91 year old man!

Ravinia

My email last week was pretty short, so I decided to expound on a few interesting things from last week. On Wednesday we all went to Ravinia, which took 2 hours in rush hour and only about 1 1/4 in non-rush hour. Ravinia has a cool outdoor amplatheater. That is were the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sang. The seats that were in in theater were 95 dollars! We had the lawn seat and there were TONS of people on the lawn. Most of them brought a small folding table and put a tablecoth, candles, flowers in vases on them. They would then bring out there goblets and have a little wine to go with the performance. Lots had fancy picnic dinners as well. We brought Subway, because we didn't know it was such as fancy occasion. The music was wonderful.

The taste of Chicago is like a big fair for food. The only animals there were the Budwieser horses. We walked around a lot and got some free samples of toothpast, advil, soda. We got our pictures taken with some country dude, but it was just a green back drop and they added him in. It was pretty silly, but it was free. We stayed down town for about 6 hours. We tried a lot of different food. We had jerk chicken, which was the best food there. I am glad we found that. There was a line for free cheesecake, but they didn't let us get any. It was sad.

Sunday we watched the fireworks from the front door. The Calvery Christian chuch shot them off, so they were pretty good. It was nice not to have to drive anywhere. Erik and I got the 4th a nd 5th off, so we are enjoying our holidays.