Weekend in the Windy City

I spent the weekend in Chicago to celebrate Kate's birthday (which was yesterday). My Mimi came up from Decatur too but she didn't know I was coming, so me and Kate surprised her.

We went to Navy Pier to see an art expo that Kate was super excited about. It was pretty neat and we got to see a glass blowing exhibit that was really cool. Mimi took us to Grand Lux Cafe for lunch and then we shopped around Michigan Ave until it was time for Mimi to catch her bus ride back home.

Sunday, Kate and I went to Hyde Park for breakfast. She showed me around University of Chicago and then we tried to read/study on campus, but we both ended up falling asleep. My parents drove up for lunch and then took me back to the train station. When I got to Lafayette, Nate was waiting for me with a rose. All in all, it was a fun weekend.

SOFA exhibit at Navy Pier

Skyline

The birthday girl

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City champs

Cross country season is officially over. Last night was city finals and Blackhawk girls finished first. We took 1st, 3rd, 5th, 8th and 10th place. Evelyn ran 14:56, so about 10 seconds off her PR. She was 32nd overall out of 64 girls. Her place counted for her team which she was happy about. The boys did good too and finished in second place overall.

Last weekend

Last weekend was a busy one. I had the Fort4Fitness, Evelyn had a cross country invitational in Huntington and Jameson had two soccer games in Middlebury. All on Saturday! Friday I spent all afternoon at the F4F expo. The weather was lovely so that was nice. When it was busy, the time passed quickly. When it was slow, there were still enough people that I wasn’t totally bored. Evelyn had a great run and PR’ed with at time of 14:40. It was an early morning for them as she had to be at the meet by 8:40. But that was better for us since Jameson’s games were into the afternoon. I had a decent half marathon. I ran 2:10:30 which is slower than I’d like but I’ve also been dealing with a nagging right knee problem. So I honestly was thankful I could run and run the race without much discomfort. I was fast enough to get home, shower and eat lunch before we left for soccer. Jameson’s team won the first game 0-1 and tied the second 1-1. He scored both the goals. ...

Futsal

It’s futsal season. Jameson had his first game tonight. It’s all just intra club fun meant to help the players develop and practice over the winter. Parents only have to help during games with subbing but we also got Evelyn to help run the scoreboard.

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