my kind of town

chicago!
my ten year college reunion was this weekend.
originally i was going to drive there from mpls with natalie. but this way, the detour to kc worked out and i got to leave natalie with nana and papa so i could enjoy a girls' weekend with my humanitarians! (yes, all my groups of friends have names. funny!) i was bummed that natalie couldn't play with all the other kiddos but i had a great time!

but first- my bff courtney took friday off so we could hang out. amazing, isn't she?!

 i've been retaining a lot of water lately... ;)

i really miss chicago!

 when we were dating, JR lived in one of these corn cob buildings (aka marina towers). it was so fun!

 i highly recommend the architecture boat tour.

 aren't they soooo cute?!

 i LOOOOOOVE this mediterranean bread from chicago pizza and oven grinder. this restaurant is one of my all-time faves! and i LOVE that courtney will always go with me! :)

 i am silly and use my hands to show how big stuff is. back in the day, i was at an ostrich farm in south africa. i took a picture of the ostrich eggs which were huge but my dad said that since i didn't put anything else in the picture to show the scaling they just looked like regular eggs. sooo...now i do quirky stuff like this:

the pizza really deserves at least two thumbs up.
 cheers-ing to courtney drinking water! yaaahoo!

 and then surprising her lil sis with the news!

 me posing in my boy robert randolph's hat.

oh wait, you don't know who robert randolph is?

oh, now you do? okay, great!