Chicago!

We arrived back to Chicago on Wednesday early evening - actually Naperville the home of Roxanne's sister Luanne and Tom Pender. Grant (their youngest son is an approaching high school senior- so he will be off to college in a year - "empty nesters" as they say.

We purchased our game "settlers of Catan" which Aaron and AJ introduced to us. And so we played it with Lu and Grant

On our way to downtown Chicago

 

We went to the Chicago museum of art for the exhibit of impressionist and fashion.

American Gothic at the Chicago museum.

Back to Taste of Chicago for some chips and blue cheese sauce. And then some fish tacos and steak tacos.

Resting min the park.

In front of the fountain.

 

Stuart and Luanne

 

 

A view Chicago skyline and the Taste of Chicago

Stuart , Tom and Luanne

A great day in Chicago!

 

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Wednesday leaving Minnesota, back to Illinois

After a great night staying at Lisa & Mark's, Greta treated us again to a delicious breakfast. Egg casserole, coffee cake and fruit parfaits.

Lisa s daughter Olivia was up early to join us for breakfast. She will be finishing college soon.

Last group picture before we leave.

Welcome to Wisconsin!

Since our neighbor, Dan Benson in PA is from River Falls WI, we had a short detour to stop in and take a photo-op along hwy 94 as we headed for IL

And of course once we hit the border of Illinois there was no sign and just more construction! So Mike fixed up an appropriate sign for the welcome to Illinois!

 

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Back to Burnsville, MN

We headed towards Burnsville in the late afternoon on Tuesday to stay with Lisa and Mark.

Greta loading up the food for dinner- dinner is going to be fabulous!

Greta's living room. Next we all drove over to Lisa and Mark's home (Lisa is Greta and Leonard's daughter)

She lives in Burnsville

Leonard is ready...cheers!

Living room

Towards the entrance

Mike and Leonard cheers again

The fabulous backyard

Lisa picked fresh lettuce from their garden for dinner.

Mark's new strawberry beds.

Leonard and Lisa made the side trellis

Greta is checking out her pink rose. So many plants were transplanted from Greta's garden on the farm in Gowrie to MN

Ready for dinner. Of course Greta's specialties. And Mark grilled the ribeyes- yum!

Left to right..Erika,(Lisa's youngest daughter, starting college this fall) Kevin , Erika 's boyfriend) Leonard , Greta, Mike, Mark, Lisa

Ribeyes hot off the grill

Lisa's office, hard at work 24/7!

The end of a fantastic day.

 

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