World's Largest Block Party

We headed out to the World's Largest Block Party last night; it's a fundraiser for Old St. Pat's Church. Two of our favorite bands were playing: Ben Kweller and Rusted Root.

Ben Kweller was on first, about 30 minutes after we rolled into town. It was disappointing how many people were there, but maybe only 100-200 were actually watching and listening to him play. He was great though, we're going to try to go when he comes in September.

After Ben, we decided we needed to get some new food to replace the nasty nachos we had purchased. Below, the "bucket of fries" that included nacho cheese, jalapenos and bacon; it was delicious!

Rusted Root was awesome. We had a great time listening to them, but decided to leave early because of my experience there last year (ended up walking about 3 miles home).

So, we went looking for a cab. Quite a few other people decided to go looking for a cab at the same time. After many false positives and a lot of cursing at people that ran in front of us, a limo driver pulled over and asked where we were going.

This is where the night takes a turn for the less-enjoyable. We got in the limo and headed for home.... (to be continued)

Cars Nick Sees: Zebra and Collector

First of an ongoing series

As you may or may not be aware, I commute about 2 hours a day. Part of that commute goes through a part of suburban Chicago that has an interesting mix of white trash and hicks. As a result, I see a number of interesting cars sharing the road with me. Here are two examples:

This person had painted his car in a zebra pattern, with red racing stripes. There was also a remarkable amount of rust (not pictured).

Kristin will need to remind me of the name of the guy that ran for president of ASUU that was old and collected things in the back of his truck. Here is a guy that had everything in the back of his truck from a water heater to an office chair.

I look forward to continuing this series in the future.

under construction

Working a bit on the blog - things may look weird for the next little while. Thanks!

anniversary!

i think for the first anniversary the custom gift is paper but what about organic cotton? i think i should find the closest west elm and work there, chances are they get paid more then preschool teachers!

visitors!

Nicks parents are coming to visit us on Wednesday and we are so excited, we have a few things planned but i wanted some more ideas of what we should definitely do while they are here.
we are thinking; boat tour, second city, bean, shopping on mich ave, wrigley stadium....any other ideas?
p.s. we have a serious lack in comments but google analytics says people from chicago are looking at this so please comment!!

send me on my way..

my sweet husband surprised me with tickets to see Rusted Root and Ben Kweller tomorrow night, i am so very excited! If only I still wore hemp, had a few months worth of hair growth on my legs and my favorite amazing concert going tie dye pants to wear (don't worry they were from J Crew, I was at least a preppy hippy)!! wow, i miss being a care free young hippie! at least for tomorrow night i will be, except for the husband and lack of illegalness!

Father/Uncle Oscar

Wondering where we got the name Oscar?

Here's the answer.