Remember the Summer?

It has been a real long time since I've blogged.  That means we're going way back to the summer time in an effort to get caught up.  It's nice, actually, to look out on a snowy Portland and remember all the summer fun we had with Eddy's family when we visited the midwest.

First we went to Wisconsin to visit Ceci.

She showed us how to eat all the cheeses.

I mean, like, all of them. We also went to a Zoo. Turns out the Madison Zoo is particularly punny.

But there were penguins there.

And things to stick our heads through. And pose next to.

Eddy's favorite is always the polar bears.

Also, we did some drinking with Ceci on the UW Madison campus.

The botanical gardens in Madison had a great spot for me to have tea parties to topiary bears.

Also a beautiful Thai Pavilion.

Next we went to Chicago to see these characters.

We got to meet little Harrison for the first time. He and Eddy had a lot of shared interests.

Clearly we couldn't visit Chicago without also hitting the Lincoln Park Zoo as well. Eddy was sad that the polar bears were off exhibit.

I sat on a tractor there. In the middle of the city.

We also did some Divergent tourism.

We went to the Merciless Mart.

It wasn't what we expected inside based on the books.

Get it? Because post-apocalyptic literature?!  And pillows?