Via Chicago

So we're alive, barely. Not much going on around here, just a lot of work and wishing the Cougars were better than they are. A couple of months ago we went to Chicago, where the Ahlstrom clan was nice enough to let us crash with them for a few days. We had a great time and checked out the Sears tower (the glass boxes on the observation deck were quite the experience), Wrigley Field and Wrigleyville (pretty much the greatest neighborhood on earth), Frontera Grill (a Rick Bayless restaurant I've been wanting to go to for a long time), and for some reason watched them shoot Transformers 3 downtown (I still have no idea why we did that), among other things. Anyway, blah, blah, blah, pictures.