Milestones

We celebrated two momentous occasions this month. The first was Liz's birthday. We observed it by throwing a costume party. The theme: dress as your favorite opera or film character (some people don't know any opera characters). Liz stole the show, stunningly dressed as the Queen of the Night. Recalling my secret childhood ambition to be a cowboy, I dressed as the next closest thing: Escamillo, the Spanish bullfighter from Carmen. Also, this was a good final use for my old baseball pants, decorated with some elaborate ribbons from Walmart. Aren't we clever?

Undaunted by the challenge of topping our costumes, several friends showed up too.



"Who's that guy on the pole?" See here for more

2 YEARS!!!

Can you believe it!? On August 19th, we celebrated our second anniversary. Here is Liz to tell you about it.
Eric surprised me with a romantic dinner cruise on Lake Michigan! Wahoo! It was so fun! They even had a jazz combo and dancing. You may find this hard to believe, but we were the first couple to get the dancing started, and people CLAPPED for us! Eric is an amazing dancer! The pics below are of us with the beautiful Chicago skyline in the background, and then the special dessert they had for us (they put rose petals on our table) to celebrate our special day!

Surprise Adventure for Eric!!

As you may know, Eric always has some special date or surprise for me up his sleeve. So...this time it was my turn! I discovered the Chicago Water Taxi now comes all the way down to Chinatown on Saturdays, AND that it's dirt cheap (pre-requisite for fun in the Weddle household). To top it off, I discovered that it turns around at the base of the Chicago Trump Tower construction site. If there's anything that Eric likes, besides me of course, its tall buildings, and if they're still under construction, well, he has to work very hard to contain himself.

So, I told Eric...well, actually, I just told him I had a surprise and that he should be VERY excited! Then on Saturday morning, after I had a nice long chat with Becky Foster, we headed to our pick up destination: Ping Tom Park in Chinatown. This location was especially helpful in further delaying the surprise. We've been to Ping Tom plenty of times, and there is no sign of a water Taxi stop-I just knew from the website where they'd pick up. We enjoyed watching the elderly Chinese at their beautiful Tai Chi while we waited. Eric, still unaware of The Plan, was wild with anticipation.

Then, it came.

At first all we could see was a little yellow blur around the river bend, then, I exclaimed with great excitement, "WE GET TO RIDE THE WATER TAXI!!" Eric was so thrilled that he passed out, and had to be carried by the 80 year old 4 ft. tall Chinese man who barely flinched as he hoisted Eric onto the boat. A few minutes later, Eric was fully revived, and we were headed up the river. Here are some pictures of our adventure!

We hope you will all come to visit, and we'll take you on the water taxi too!