Membership To The Shedd Aquarium Has Its Benefits

Aug 23, 11 Membership To The Shedd Aquarium Has Its Benefits

Posted by Michael in Being A Dad

Chrissy had a work seminar scheduled for the last day of our vacation, which left me at home alone with the kids for the day.  This would usually mean that I get to clean the entire house while waiting for Chrissy to come home.  I don’t believe that vacation days should be spent vacuuming and doing laundry, so I decided that...

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Plan B: Where We Have Fun Somewhere Between Wisconsin and Illinois

Aug 21, 11 Plan B: Where We Have Fun Somewhere Between Wisconsin and Illinois

Posted by Michael in Special Events

Late last spring, Chrissy and I made a list of all of the things that we would like to do over the summer.  The biggest thing on the list was a trip to St. Louis, which was pushed back to the end of the summer.  Although plans were made, we had to skip the trip due to inclement weather.  But there was a backup plan, which would...

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Rained Out Vacation

Aug 20, 11 Rained Out Vacation

Posted by Michael in Special Events

We had originally planned to go to St. Louis for our summer vacation.  The idea was to visit a buddy of mine near St. Louis and then introduce the boys to the Gateway Arch.  We also planned on stopping at Cahokia Mounds, where I proposed to Chrissy, on the way there.  There’s also the Magic House Children’s Museum,...

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Learning From The More Experienced At The Vintage Illinois Wine Festival

Sep 22, 10 Learning From The More Experienced At The Vintage Illinois Wine Festival

Posted by Michael in Special Events

The Vintage Illinois Wine Festival is held in Utica, Illinois at Starved Rock National Park.  Chrissy and I made plans to attend a few months ago when we first heard of it from a vendor at the Munster Wine Festival.  The smaller festival had only four or five wine booths, but we had so much fun there that we decided that the...

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School’s Out For Summer

Jun 11, 10 School’s Out For Summer

Posted by Michael in Other Things

Summer vacation has begun, and that means that Chrissy must once again make the transition from elementary school teacher to stay-at-home mom.  Believe it or not, it’s not easy.  We’re used to having Chrissy’s Mom take care of our house and now Gavin is teething again.   So it might be rough this week. And the...

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Celebrating Chrissy’s Birthday With A Tour Of The Wine Country Of Southwest Michigan

Dec 06, 09 Celebrating Chrissy’s Birthday With A Tour Of The Wine Country Of Southwest Michigan

Posted by Michael in Special Events

Get too close to the Michigan border in Indiana, and you’ll start seeing billboard advertisements for wineries.  We’ve seen them before and always wanted to try out the “Wine Trail“.  Chrissy’s birthday was coming up, and she asked if we could go to Southwest Michigan for a wine tasting tour to...

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Managing Roller Coaster Lines At Disney With Fast Pass and Kid Swap

Feb 23, 09 Managing Roller Coaster Lines At Disney With Fast Pass and Kid Swap

Posted by Michael in Being A Dad

I was talking with my Cousin Dave about our family trip to Orlando recently, and he asked what the “Fast Pass” was.  I had just assumed that everybody knew what that was, but he was interested in taking his family to Disney and hadn’t yet heard of the concept.  The Fast Pass is Disney’s way of keeping you...

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I Loved “Blue Man Group”; Chrissy, Not So Much

Feb 13, 09 I Loved “Blue Man Group”; Chrissy, Not So Much

Posted by Michael in Special Events

I’m involved with a group called iBridge that posts intellectual property on their web site for licensing purposes.  UChicagoTech posts about a hundred technologies there, with plans to send more soon.  The iBridge people co-sponsored an outing to “Blue Man Group” at Universal Studios Orlando during the AUTM...

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