The Big Wait: How We Spent the Summer

We inaugurated the Summer Season with our second annual Bike the Drive event. This year was a little more grey and wet, but still exhilarating! For this event, Lake Shore Drive is closed down to traffic from 5:00 am to noon, and is opened to bicyclists. There is a northern route up to Montrose Harbor and a southern route that goes to the Museum of Science and Industry...we've been partial to the southern route. Check it out...

After we finished the ride, we did what often do these days, we visited Millenium Park and in particular our very favorite fountain...

This fountain was designed by a Spanish sculptor, who wanted to create a work that would be interactive for visitors to the Park.

Exito!

May 30 @ Wrigley
We spent Dave's birthday at Wrigley Field this year, watching the Cubs get thrashed by the Marlins. Two home runs while I was buying hot dogs...HOLY COW!!! We had awesome seats--just past first base, five rows from the dugout. Happy Birthday Honey!

Dragon Boat Festival
In June we journeyed down to Tom Ping Memorial Park in Chicago's Chinatown for their annual Dragon Boat Races.

The Dragon Boat Festival, or "double fifth," occurs on the Fifth Day of the Fifth Moon, and marks the arrival of summer. Dragon Boat racing has become BIG SPORT around the world. The US HQ of dragon boat races, it turns out, is Portland, Oregon, where Uncle Erik and Auntie Charlotte live (and cousins Jan and Bjorn). We think Uncle Erik needs to hang up his kayak and give it a go...