another post? yes sir're bobber

my apologies for the recent blog slump... i've been soooo busy doing chores around the house... i can't wait for school to start... one more week... i start on the 28th... woooooo

so today mary and i went downtown and to navy pier and watched the annual (give me some dumb and dumber love, that's a tough one) air and water show... FREE! woohoo, Adam: we were totally thinking of you, we were like, man, i bet adam would love to be up there doing that stuff...

so the coolest part that we saw were the blue angels... those things are soooo loud and fast, it's ridiculous, the pix don't do it much justice, but these things were flying so low to the ground it was crazy... they'd come out of no where and then all of a sudden, you'd hear this loud thunder and a blue streak through the sky... it was soo cool... we walked around a bit, and i got turned around and walked west, looking for the lake (ooops!) but we caught a bus and got back on track...

so we found this totally wicked (give me some mr deeds love) church called the new community... it's a multi-cultural/ethnic church comprised of a bunch of people around our age of all different cultures.. seriously, the oldest people we've seen are like 50, and they were visiting their son... the sermons have been ridiculously awesome and totally practical.. we've only met a few people there so far, but hope to get plugged in somewhere... they call small groups, connection groups...

i got the whole car tax thing figured out... well, actually i thought i had it figured out after a TON of math and digging up old paper work.. got to the secretary of state and the lady said, oh, you didn't need to do all this, just fill out when you bought the car and when you brought it back into the state... you don't need all these numbers... well... i didn't have to pay any taxes and i got to brush up on some basic math... and spend some quality alone time while waiting in lines.. haha

ok, so last bit of news... we got new cell phones, i might have already texted a few people my new number, but i haven't got around to sending one to everybody... so if you haven't gotten a call or text from either mary or myself, give us a holler and we'll hook you up with our new numbers...

enjoy a few pix from the windy city
the car and trailor (sp?) is a sculpture infront of the museum of contemporary art