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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

technology

Technology is so amazing. These pictures were taken under water with a camera. A regular point-and-shoot camera. not one of those plastic covered or disposable ones. A plain old cannon digital camera that said it's water-proof up to 5 feet. of course this had to be tested...

Test site - Stormy Lake Wisconsin. I had my contact lenses in so i couldn't open my eyes, but not bad, huh?

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Bike the Drive

This past Sunday was the city of Chicago's Bike the Drive. Lakeshore Drive is shut down to vehicle traffic for 6 hours and open to bicycles. You start at Grant Park and head either north or south. Steve and i entered LSD and headed south for approximately 7.5 miles to the Museum of Science and Industry to the turn around point and headed back to Grant park. The whole south route was just over 15 miles. Since I haven't been on my new bike much we stopped after 15 miles. we could have continued north to Berwyn and back for an additional 15 miles but decided to not push it. It was a perfect day to be out for a bike ride. Nice, bright, and for the trip down it wasn't very windy. We both had long sleeves on and almost didn't need them. It was quite the experience to be riding on LSD on a bike with not a car in sight. It was also an experience to be on the Red line train with 15 other bikes and riders coming into the city. i wish i had taken a picture of that. After the ride we wandered around to the various bike-related vendors to see what they were peddling. Since we started the ride at 5:45 in the morning, we were ready for breakfast. We stopped by a place on Michigan Ave and then headed home. We're already planning on doing the entire 30 miles next year.

Here we are standing in front of the museum taking a mid-ride break. enjoying a banana, mini-granola bars, and a blue energy drink.

A view looking back at the field museum. See how blue the sky was?

We stopped by McCormick Place to blow my nose and take a picture of the city. It was a good thing we stopped, when we went to take off Steve's chain fell off.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

BIke

Well here it finally is my new bike.

beautiful, isn't she?

She can be a road bike or a mountain bike.

this weekend is the "Bike the Drive". A 30 or 15 miles ride on LakeShore Drive. don't worry, they kick the cars off. we'll be ok.

i'm sure i'll get some pictures of me actually on the bike.

so far my monkey butt hasn't been too bad.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Easter

A couple more Easter pictures.

Searching for Easter treats.

A couple of boys entertaining us before lunch.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Easter

It's always good to start preparing for Easter with the coloring of Easter eggs. I gave my camera to Axel to capture our coloring of the eggs.

He needs a little bit of work but not a bad photographer.

After the church service it's time to collect the eggs. It was a great day to be outside for the egg trees.

Did i take a picture of the table? Did i take a picture of the inside egg hunt? Did i take a picture of the lamb cake? actually i did but on my other camera. I just have to remember to bring in the pictures.

Happy Easter!

Shedd

A few weeks ago Steve and I went to the aquarium. We originally went the week before but the line was way too long and the weather was too nice. We ended up just walking around the museums and Navy Pier that day. The next week we tried again, this time getting their bright and early when the aquarium opened. That was the way to do it. We were almost first in line and it filled up fast. We had a great day. Watching two different feedings. Experienced a 4-D movie. Fought the crowds. It was a perfect day to be inside.