Our October was filled with beaucoup de visitors, probably because I keep telling people to NEVER come to Chicago between November and April, unless they want to FREEZE in completely unacceptable temperatures. I am realizing that that is six months of the year, or in other words, half of my life. I am working on my attitude (and my collection of wool socks and other warm, lovely things).
Anyway, yes, Chicago is lovely in the spring, summer and fall. And we are so glad that people came to visit us in October. It was my dad's first time seeing our home!
The Chicago Botanic Garden was so lovely and enchanting that I bought a membership, so it can be my new nature retreat that I can escape to whenever I feel like it. I am SO excited about this!
The boys love running around here, and my Dad loved seeing all the different plants (and took pictures of many plants and their placards for his yard-planning purposes).
Guys. We played a lot of games. Mostly Wizard and other card games, but we also enjoyed this game designed by my brother Tanner, our family's resident Board Game Geek. The game is called "Hello My Name is Ernest," based on the play by Oscar Wilde. It was really fun!
We had to visit the Bean.
Yup, there we are!
And I enjoyed seeing the Art Institute with my dad, who tutored me through every art class I've ever taken. He was pretty disappointed that "American Gothic" was on loan for a few months. We will have to go back someday!
We went to Wisconsin to Oriole Springs orchard. Apparently, missing school for an annual apple picking trip is becoming another tradition of ours. We call it a "family emergency."
I love fall and apple picking with my boys!
Donuts from Harvest Time are pretty much the best thing ever.
Another highlight of the trip was that we got to put on yet another production of Newsies together. Ellis insisted that I find a script of not just the songs, but "all the words" from Newsies. "Just type it in!" he said. And lo and behold, we found a script! We shrunk it down to 26 pages (8 pt. font) and put it in a binder. Which means, of course, we are going to have to do a live production of ALL THE WORDS AND SONGS from Newsies. With Grandma and Grandpa. We had auditions. Ellis landed about half of the roles (he was the judge with the strongest opinion). Grandma landed the part of "audience." We got about 8 pages into it in the first hour, then took a break. Don't worry, he didn't forget, and we got lots of chances to continue the play for a few pages here and there. Trust me, it was a top-notch production!
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