The weekend was busy but I got to spend time with Ivy, my brother Dave, and his wife Lauren. Starting with a 5am trip to O’Hare, here were the highlights:

Ivy and I got back to the hotel and she immediately crashed out until my brother and his wife showed up 5 hours later. I knew I was going to be in trouble with her freshly rested. I was mostly right but she was really nice about it.

The first stop was the Taste of Chicago. We had pizza, some pizza bite things, and cheese cake. I think there were steak tacos mixed in there somewhere too but all in all it wasn’t great. We walked all over, took lots of pictures, but we could just as easily have eaten somewhere else. The jury is still out, but we’re thinking of skipping “taste of” anything at this point.

After that we were pretty well tuckered out. We were a block from Muvico so we decided to round out the evening with Hancock. It was a surprisingly good flick with a deeper story line that I expected. There had better be a sequel though—there’s a lot more there.