Spent Wednesday through Sunday with Erik Keith Matt Ken Mark Tim Tara Kristen Kari Kristine Kathleen Bob Jon and lots more…<\/p>\n
Wednesday
\nDirect flight on Southwest, oh yeah – brought snacks and “The Good Lord Bird” – smooth sailing.\u00a0 Beautiful and brisk at Midway.\u00a0 Walked around with Revco blasting in headphones.\u00a0 Trying to find the pizza place where Keith was hanging, while simultaneously navigating Erik there.\u00a0 Keith got mad that I didn’t get there sooner.\u00a0 Erik wouldn’t install an app that would have shown him my location, so drove around without finding me for an hour.\u00a0 Finally we all got to the pizza place.\u00a0 They whined, I got mad, slapped Erik and Keith, Keith got pissy.\u00a0 Off to a capital start!!\u00a0 :P<\/p>\n
Matt showed up and reminded us how to chill.\u00a0 He’s doing great, teaching art to 35 high school kids at once (wha??) on the south side of Chicago.\u00a0 We went to the art studio where he works on lithographs done on these blocks of limestone that he gets (from Russia I think?).\u00a0 Beautiful stuff!\u00a0 Wish I’d bought one…\u00a0 Well, I misbehaved there and that was the end of my Wednesday night.\u00a0 My Pulp Fiction moment without the adrenaline or fun.\u00a0 Live and learn!<\/p>\n
Thursday Keith and I got up to run (I was 100% recovered) and headed out of our swanky Hotel Lincoln digs straight into… camels?\u00a0 Yep we were running through the totally free totally amazing Lincoln Zoo!\u00a0 It was early so we didn’t see the lions, tigers and giraffes until later, but we did catch the seals before we were through the park…<\/p>\n
…onto beautiful views of the city from the beautiful wetland preserves around Lakeshore Drive.\u00a0 Absolutely stunning, full of all kinds of native plants fish and birds, with the Chicago skyline as a backdrop…<\/p>\n
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