Ben and Courtney visit Illinois
Honeymoon in the Midwest? Why not? Okay, there might be many reasons not to and there are many better choices and this really wasn't their honeymoon, but it was a blast having Ben and Courtney visit for a few days. Lesa and I picked them up in St. Louis on Wednesday the 19th while Erin remained at home to protect it from tornado-type winds! Really. From St. Louis, we drove up to Nauvoo and went through the temple the next morning. Wow! Afterwards, we took a horse drawn wagon tour of Nauvoo, visited a few shops and found out where some of our ancestors lived in Nauvoo. (Courtney has more impressive ancestors than we do.) We chilled out in Charleston for a few days, had a very informal open-house on Saturday, and topped it off with a trip to Chicago to eat Giardano's pizza, view the beautiful skyline from a river boat tour, and walk around Millennium park. Yes, life is good even in the Midwest.
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Nice! What a good looking crew.
ReplyDeleteGiardano's pizza... that's what it's all about!! Oh... Ben & Courtney are alright too ;-)
ReplyDeleteJake, when you quit your day job, I'm sure the Illinois Travel Council would hire you in a flash. Fun times!
ReplyDeleteMarie made great pizza for dinner, but not quite as good as Giordano's stuffed spinach pizza (is that the kind you had?). Sounds like a great time, sorry Ben and Courtney are now having to worry about such mundane things as mowing buffalo grass.
ReplyDeleteWe are glad you all had a good time in Chicago and rural Illinois. Chicago was alweays a favorite of ours during our many visits to the RSNA meetings there.
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