Travel day

Friday I work until noon and Friday night I'll be traveling home. I'll hit Brainerd around 11pm. I'm looking forward to two full days at home.

Me and Shayne and Mr. Munster

Another adventure for Kimkay. Wednesday, March 30th, Shayne walked me back to my hotel (we just so happened to be working in the same building...what are the odds in Chicago?) so I could drop off Edger (my computer case) and the projector (Rat Bastard) I've been dragging all over the city. Then we went and took a ride on the "E". I think that stands for Elevated (some of it runs above ground). Or do they call it the "L". No I think it's the E. Anyway that was interesting in itself. Shayne warned me to watch for rats down there. When we got off the train it was raining...no pouring (I said I would write that it was pouring.... it was only drizzling). We walked a couple blocks to Shayne's place in this horrific storm. Actually there was a storm but it hadn't really hit us yet. Then we jumped in Shayne's super sporty little car (covered in bird crap...well actually the rain helped get rid of most of the crap. It wasn't as bad as Sunday when he picked me up downtown and I saw him coming for a mile covered in crap) and we went to a Mexican joint for dinner. We ate good food, had great conversation and laughed like hyena's (spell check says hyena is a word, but I don't know if it's the right spelling for the word I'm looking for). Shayne is so entertaining. He's witty, good humored, smart and down right fun to be around. Thanks Shayne for "babysitting" me while I visited the Windy City. And for goodness sake, get a cover for your car.

Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. in Chicago

Sunday I walked down to Navy Pier and enjoyed the warmer temps in the low 40's.

Then my step brother, Shayne Palm, came and took me to an excellent Italian dinner. It was really nice to visit with him. We are planning a couple more outings this week before I leave this upcoming weekend.

"Guess Who"

Yesterday was a fairly quiet day. I went and had brunch at a place called West Egg Cafe only a couple blocks from my hotel.

I scored another Hard Rock shot glass for my friend Brian. He's getting quite a collection as I roam around the US and Canada.

Then I went and saw the movie "Guess Who". It was pretty darn funny. I laughed a lot. Bernie Mac is hilarious.

Hard Rock Cafe Chicago

Chicago Art

Full Moon over Lake Michigan

Friday night there's a full moon over Lake Michigan. This morning we walked to work in the snow. It was very cold. I'm really looking forward to spring! Alas the word is: warmer temps are on the horizon.

Downtown Chicago 

Chicago

Well it's Thursday and I've been here in Chicago since Monday. I'll be here until next Saturday April 2nd. That means Easter in the hotel.

It's been cold and we're expecting snow tonight. But the good news is the temps are suppose to get up into the 50's next week.

BassPro Shop Visit

Mike, Jessi and myself had an adventure to BassPro Shop in Springfield Missouri. It was a blast. We left Brainerd Thursday around 3pm. Perfect timing to hit the rush hour traffic in Minneapolis. This slowed us down, but not by much.

We hit snow a couple times near the Minnesota/Iowa border. This snow ended up to be 19 inches total accumulations. We were glad we got through there before it really started coming down.

We spent the night in DesMoines. Friday we drove to Springfield with only one little side bar. Jessi wanted to investigate the precious Moments place. So we swung in there, looked at the wedding chapel, snapped a couple pictures and hightailed it out of there.

We arrived in Springfield just in time to shop the BassPro Moonlight Madness Spring Fishing event. Me and Mike loaded our carts and finally got out of there at 8:30pm. By that time Jessi was really hungry and tired of looking at fishing stuff. She was a super duper good sport.

The next day, Saturday, we went back to BassPro and bought some more. Jessi got an awesome backpack. We visited the museum, ate and headed back north. We drove to Kansas City, Kansas and stayed right next to the Kansas Speedway (very cool).

We visited Cabelas. Bought some more stuff. Mike got his new backpack there.

Sunday we drove home. It was a great trip. Jessi said "hey should we do this every year?" What a gal!