Adrienne's and Alexis' Building

Here is a picture of the building that Adrienne and Alexis live in.

2 Trips to Chicago

Last week we helped Alexis and Adrienne move from Milwaukee to Chicago. It will be a drag not to have a reason to go to Milwaukee as often as we have. It is a great city. Cely and I will just have to make new reasons to visit.

I am anxious to get to know more about Chicago though and expect the girls to find some cool places. Everything went well during the move other than I should have rented a bigger truck. It took all my Von Sydow, Weicker, Graebel..... skills to get everything loaded into it and the van. Actually I had to pull all sorts of stuff out and reload them so that I could fit the futon and Adrienne's bed frame in. Here is what the truck looked like when we arrived in the city. There wasn't much air left in that van. Cely made me laugh, she kept telling everyone that no one else could have gotten everything in that truck. Well, the stuff was in the box, the front seat, the van and two plants went with us back to Eau Claire until we came down this weekend with Baci.

Their apartment is very nice. Here are some pictures I took last weekend. I forgot the camera this week.


This weekend we went back there on Friday night then to the Quad Cities for a wedding on Saturday morning. I drove back to Eau Claire on Sunday and Cely is staying with her Mom for a bit and visiting her cousins. Liz came in from Hawaii for the wedding and Mona is coming in from Colorado at the end of the week. Liz's son Brandon is going to the Olympics again as the goalie for the USA Water Polo team. Watch for him.

On Saturday we went to breakfast at a small bakery that Cely had heard about on the Food Channel. It is called the Angel Food Bakery and is very kitschy just like a lot of the hip restaurants in Chicago. It has a 60's theme with Easy Bake Ovens all over the place. The owner was a potter and is very artistic with her frostings and creations. She makes a twinkie like thing stuffed with marshmallow creme and wrapped in aluminum foil that she calls an airstream. The coolest thing was that it is on the corner of Montrose and Paulina in the Ravenswood neighborhood. That may not be so cool in itself but it means that Drake and Elston is in between it and the Girls' apartment. On the way back we drove by 3909 Drake, the house my dad grew up in and where my Grandmother lived most of her life. They have changed the siding. I remember it as that asphalt shingles. You can still see the garage in the back with the original siding. I got the picture from Google Street View. See if that link works. It was very cool to see that house. Back in the day this angle would have shown "Uncle's" little glasswindow seed starting box on the side of the house. I can't even remember Uncle and Auntie's names. Maybe Nancy will help me with that.