Annual Bike ride to school

    Every year around the last week of school we take the bikes to school.  Jimmy's school is so much closer than the girls so this year was just me and my two gals riding the big streets all alone.  it was so cute to listen to Catherine the whole way telling me how much she loves riding her bike to school with us.  She really is very sweet.  Well, we chose the date we were going to do this years trip about two weeks ago..Little did we know it would be a 95 degree morning..just pure sweat the whole way and back.  It was worth it though because they enjoyed it so much.  When we got to the school Catherine was looking all around for her classmates so that they could see her riding into school like a big girl.  It was 100 degrees when i finally skipped out of work early to pick them up.  I went into the school dripping with sweat and their kindergarten teacher saw me and offered to get me some water....after all, i was standing next to the water bubbler.  I guess i looked pretty pathetic walking into the school with my bike helmet on.  It was a great workout though to ride in the heat like that.  Really, the high of the ride was just watching how happy it made my little sweetheart Catherine.  She must have told me ten times how much she loved riding her bike with her daddy.  well worth it!!!

The land of the dollar bill

  This years baseball trip has finally arrived.  It was a no-braiuner as to where we were going as soon as we heard the Sox were going to play at Wrigley.  Off we went on Thursday night and it was pretty painless to get there.  After a short cab ride we went across the street to Lake Michigan and did some walking and hanging out at the water fountain.  We were so exccited to head over to the game.....once there we met aunt jo and her friends feeney and marsha at the cubby bear, which a restaurant directly across the street from the park.  It was a nice, old ballpark and it was so fun to see that old red sign outside.
    Once inside the park it seemed alot more modern than Fenway Park.  It was interesting to see bleacher type seats on the roof of houses across the street.  The people here were generally nice to Sox fans.  We both had waited so long for a championship, they still wait of course. 
    Sixth inning was of course still ice cream time and off Jim and I went into the bowels of the park to find a helmet full of ice cream.  Thats always our tradition.  When we get the ice cream that means we usually go searching for better seats, usually around home plate.  In Cleveland a couple of years ago we ended up in the front row behind home plate on television.  No different this time, we went and found seats about ten rows from the field.  We went up and got umple Eddie and he joined us for the rest of the game.  The sox won the first game and we hung around just long enough for the crowds to thin so the trolley's werent nuts, they were busy enough just not outrageous.

    On Friday night we needed something to fill up our time after the early day baseball game so we decided to take a jaunt out the back door to the old Sears Tower, now known as the Willis Tower.  Not a big fan of heights, I was with two people who could care less about the 103 stories below them.  My heart was racing as I looked under my feet and through the glass bottom floors

     On Saturday morning we got up and out after breakfast and went looking for some bike rentals.  It was darn hot there but we were on the water.  We did find some bike rentals and off we went for about two hours on Lake Michigan.  At one point the ump and JImmy found a beach and dove right in to cool off.  I stayed with the bikes...We were in a city after all. 

Jackie connects

Its so funny to hang around the boys as they play baseball.  Jimmy has done so much work with Jackie getting him ready to play baseball and teaching him how to hit.  You can tell he does this alot by the way he hits the heck out of the ball.  This years T-ball teams switched to coach pitch half way through.  After alot of the kids went from T to regular pitch they usually dribble the ball a few feet.  Not Jackie....He gets in the batters box and just digs in...its fun to watch.