Thursday, March 29, 2007

I love Sun Shine!

We just got back from San Diego last night. We had a great time. The weather was mid-sixties and sunny most of the time. It was pretty windy, which we were told was very unusual. We will just have to go back some other time and check it out for ourselves. Here are a few pictures from our trip.
Here is a picture of Nathan and I our first night in San Diego. We actually forgot our camera for most of that first day. In my opinion the weather was nicest that first day we spent down by the harbor. I could have sat there watching the waves and enjoying the sun forever. This picture is at a jazz club/restaurant called Croce's. The music was great and so was the food.
This is a shot of the San Diego sky line from the bridge to Coranado Island. The famous Coranado Hotel is where they filmed the movie Some Like It Hot. We learned a lot about San Diego by taking a guided tour bus. This tour was nice because you could get off at every stop walk around and then catch the next bus once you were done looking around.
Here is Nathan and I just taking a break from walking around Balboa Park. Balboa Park has seven different museums as well as the zoo! The park is huge and many of its buildings were constructed for two different World Fairs in the early twentieth century.

This was one of my favorite pictures we took at the zoo. The San Diego Zoo is by far the biggest and nicest Zoo I have ever been too. Don't the hippos look so cute cuddling one another!

Here is our reenactment of the hippo picture.

We have lots more pictures and stories to share about our trip including how I found out I get seasick. Yuck! We will tell you all about it next time we see each other or maybe I will do a part two to this post.


Tuesday, March 20, 2007

I am trying to get a little culture

So I just bought season tickets to the CSO (Chicago Symphony Orchestra for all you uncultured people.) I love going to hear the CSO and I usually go once maybe twice a season. I never thought about buying season tickets until I started looking at prices. I bought a five concert series for about what it would cost to go to three concert if you bought the tickets separately. So all and all it is not a bad deal. They also have a new mini-series thing you can buy. Three concerts for under $50. I would have bought that one except it is all Baroque music and I am really more of a Romantic and Contemporary fan.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Ethnic celebrations

I was discussing what to do for St. Patrick’s Day with a friend and she told me she does not celebrate St. Patty’s Day because she is not Irish. I said everyone is Irish on St. Patty’s Day and besides she should not be bitter because her people have Casmir Pulaski Day. In my opinion St. Patty’s Day kicks Casmir’s butt, but I digress. Anyways it got me to thinking that I am only a quarter Irish-American. So what about my three quarter German- American heritage? Do the German-Americans have a day? Well it turns out we do according to Wikipedia.

Steuben Day is held September 17, celebrating Baron Friedrich von Steuben, who arrived in the United States as a volunteer offering his services to General George Washington, and is generally considered the German-American event of the year. Participants march, dance, and play music.

Steuben Day is celebrated in Chicago, Illinois in early September with a parade and a country fair serving German food, with music, costumes and other items, and in New York City on September 17 with a parade and Oktoberfest-style beer tent complete with food and live music in Central Park. This celebration was incorporated into the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

I vividly remember the parade scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, but I had no idea Chicago had this big celebration. Has anyone ever been? I am totally going this year! First I will celebrate my birthday and then the next weekend Steuben Day, who is with me?!?

Monday, March 05, 2007

San Diego, anyone?

My husband and I are planning a trip to San Diego. Does anyone have any suggestions of places to go, things to do, food to eat? Currently we are planning a trip to the zoo and a whale watching cruise. I am so looking forward to some warm weather!

Saturday, March 03, 2007

blogger trouble

It has been forever since I posted but it is not my fault! When ever I try to log on to dash board it will not take me to the sign in page. So how am I blogging now you ask? Well Julie, my good buddy, is allowing me to post from her computer. Now I think it is my my browser rather than a problem with my account.

So what is new with me? I decided I needed to read a classic. So I bought Dante's Divine Comedy last night. Other than that I am really into New Orleans style brass band music. Well I should go and hang out with everybody. Take care and I hope to be blogging regularly soon.