Every good trip begins with good planning (or at least that is my firm belief). I know many of you think what a wonderful person I must have been to give my wife the gift of non-planning (and it’s true, I am a wonderful person, humble too) but secretly I used that trip as a covert way to plan for the family version. I know, sorry to ruin your pedestal opinion of me. However, with [...]

This is from the official Jason Mraz YouTube site… man vs. tour (and a little glimpse of why I love Jason Mraz)

Sunday was our last day in Chicago and we decided to end our trip the same way we began it, by going to the House of Blues. While we were dining there on Thursday we noticed that they had advertisements for their Sunday Gospel Brunch and so we thought what the heck, this beats trying to go to the Seventeenth Church of Christ on the corner (which is really a Christian Science Church – now [...]

Day three began much like day two did, Michelle enjoying the opportunity to sleep in without Link and Flash doing their best to wake us up and me enjoying the free internet from Hotel Sax (not Hotel Sex, which led to a rather interesting discussion with Michelle’s father: “He took my daughter where?”). Duce (aka The Other John, and John #2) from work got me hooked playing an online game called Tribal Wars , so [...]

Friday was simply a gorgeous day. Brilliant blue skies with lots of puffy white clouds, mid-70’s and to top it all off, it was Michelle’s birthday (which we had actually celebrated twice the night before – oh wait, don’t take that the way it sounds… you know on second thought, go ahead and take that however you want to). I wished her a happy birthday in two time zones (since back home it was her [...]