Rocket’s Pad

While in Chicago for a family wedding we got to attend the 26th Annual Blues Festival at Grant Park. Grant Park is a huge park in down town Chicago, we read that over 1 million people were expected to attend the festival. A big highlight was getting to see Jeremy Spencer perform live.

We also discovered the Chicago Bean!

The sculpture was constructed between 2004 and 2006 and is nicknamed The Bean because of its legume-like shape. Its exterior consists of 168 stainless steel plates welded together and highly polished so it has no visible seams. On the underside of the sculpture is the omphalos, a concave chamber that warps and multiplies reflections.

Chicago has so much to see and do with kids, I wish we could have stayed on another week. They had a pirate exhibit at the Field Museum that looked incredible.

At the Yosemite Museum of History, listening to an Indian legend

Totally out of character, Danny posed to take his photo here.

Carly was holding armfulls of cute animal stuffies at the gift shop when we told her she had to pick just one. She looked at each one and slowly put them all down except for this tiny coyote. She explained, “I love them all, but this one needs me.”

We finally saw one! And followed him through the forrest a bit to get this picture.

[Heaven is] a land where children shall walk on cool springy turf, and among myrtle trees, and eat fruits that shall heal while they delight them, and drink the coolest of water, fresh from the River of Life, and have space to stretch themselves, and bathe, and leap, and run, and whichsoever way they look meet Christ’s eyes smiling on them.—Thomas Moore

Danny dashed across the yard already half way to the house and yelled back to Carly, “Race you to the house, I’m winning.” Carly was undaunted, she started running as she replied, “I’m winning in my mind.”

This did not go over at all…

Danny got a pogo stick for his 5th birthday. Something he’s wanted for a long time now.

Thank you Nyna, Christie and Jim!

Catching up on blogging about this last month. We enjoyed the Science Fair at Balboa Park on April 4th. The kids’ favorite was the show by the “Bug Guy” who provides the bugs, spiders and flies for Hollywood. He had a great show and really kept the kids attention with all his homemade bug catchers.

Danny & Carly are in the Museum of Flight here, very serious about learning.

You make life wonderful!

This is the only picture that has all 3 boys in it. Congratulations Kenji & Angel!

Once I get more pictures from Angel I will post them.