Lazy day today, but what do you expect after being up for over 25 hours yesterday?
I was awake just after 07:00hrs (local time) and caught up with the sports news on the BBC Sports pages (http://www.bbc.com/sport) and was mightily impressed with the new that Amir Khan had been knocked out in the 6th round by the mexican Alvarez (http://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/36240559). It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Michele and i headed out for the ‘all american breakfast’ at Morningside cafe, lisle. Michele settled for an omlette while i had scrambled eggs and sausages all washed down with unlimited coffee. The place was full with families but we managed to get a table.
Then it was off to find some supplies for the room, water and snacks from Jewel Osco, Wheaton (http://www.jewelosco.com/mobile-welcome/?http://www.jewelosco.com/). Michele even squeezed in a little bit of shoe shopping and managed to get some ballerina style shoes for $15, a bargain I was told!
In the afternoon we popped over to Julie and Joe’s and as Elle and Aunty Jilla were out they took us over to the house they are having an inspection undertaken on tomorrow as they have sold theirs. The house is currently empty but we only managed a tour of the outside. It in a great location and gives both Julie and Joe something to work on and call their home. It’s livable in now but there are jobs that they both can work on and put their own stamp on over the years to come. There is plenty of outside living space too where they can both come home and chill after a hard day at work.
Later in the afternoon we left Joe and Elle at home as Joe had some work to get on with while Elle was chilling. Aunty Jilla, Michele, Julie and I headed off to the Morton Arboretum (http://www.mortonarb.org) for a walk through the gardens. The queue to get in was 3 lanes full of slow moving traffic. We weren’t delayed too long but it was Mothers Day today in the US so all the families had taken it upon themselves to head out and treat their Moms. While walking about we were lucky enough to see a large eagle type bird land in a tree only feet away from us. Not sure what it was but i’ve some pictures to show my dad and maybe he can tell us what he thinks it was.
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After a pleasant walk we headed back over to Julie and Joe’s to catch up with Chris who had called over to see Julie for Mother’s day.
We’ve left them all too it for a while so they can spend some quality time together but will be catching them up later for our evening meal, at Granite City (http://www.gcfb.com/location/naperville-illinois),andnbsp;we may just ask the hotel to either organise us a taxi or drop us off so i can have a beer (or two!)
