A Day of Art

This weekend we headed down to the Art Institute Museum and as we walked down and got lost we ran into the Magic Bean, the brand new Ice Skating Rink, and a peaceful march against Prop 8. We finally found the museum and exhausted our fine art quota for the month! Anyone who can name all of the artists below will get a prize(-:

Just a cool picture from the museum garden...

On the train, Josh made me put this picture on here, I guess I owe him from the Cowboys celebration!

Chicago 2012 Olympics Candidate City, go Chicago!!! Whoo hoo!!!

The march...

He's so handsome(-:

This was actually about 5 feet tall and 7 feet across, it was much bigger than I expected (that's what she said(-:)

Plays and Movies

Since we are so close to the big city we have been checking out local plays and independent movies when I catch reviews in the free paper (it's called RedEye, it's like Creative Loafing). The two pictures below are of our walk to the Gene Siskel Film Center to see Box Elder. The film center is part of the Art Institute up here and it was founded by Gene Siskel (Siskel and Ebert) and they show independent, foreign films, documentaries, redistributed films, stuff you can't normally see in the regular theater. This last Thursday we went to one of the four movies in a movie tour called Slacker Bliss. The movie we saw was called Box Elder, four college roommates and their adventures with beer, women, and sandwiches (wait this is a movie? Nick, John, Jason, Josh? You guys made a movie?). The best part about seeing it at the film center was that there was a Q and A afterwards so we really got to know why the director made the movie, wrote it, how it was funded, etc. It was a lot of fun. You can check out www.siskelfilmcenter.org if you wanna read about some of the other movies that played with Slacker Bliss. I think we'll be heading down there again soon(-:



A few weekends ago we went to the Gorilla Tango Theater to see Shakesploitation. The theater only shows plays written by people from Chicago or about Chicago so we thought that would be a good place to start. Shakesploitation was split into three mini plays: "Romeo and Juliet: Apocalypse", "Grand Theft Othello", and "Ninja Hamlet: Flying Fist of Denmark". It was the hands down funniest play we have ever seen and it was not just the foul language and obscure references or the Japanese style dubbing on a LIVE performance (amazing)...nevermind it was all of those things that made this play incredible. I really wish it was still playing when the family comes up but it only played a few weekends )-: We'll have to catch something else equally amazing(-:

Update

Hi everybody!!! I am so sorry we haven't written in so long! The internet has been down at our apartment and Josh and I have been working like crazy. Well I've been working a little more than I normally do and Josh has been working like crazy(-:

Everything has been going great. Josh's store is finally opening and they are doing AWESOME numbers, some of the best in the district and everybody is really excited. The whole crew has been working for it though, Josh clocked 105 hours for the week the week of Halloween! It's all starting to pay off (literally(-:).

I've been split between two centers for the majority of the month and it's been interesting. My home center is the one downtown with 16 classrooms and the center I have been helping out in is in the suburbs close to our apartment with 7 classrooms. So they have been two very different settings but everyone has been great in welcoming me(-: I should be full time at my home center from now on which is where I want to be. I LOVE going into the city everyday and I LOVE my ten hour days! I have one day a week to explore the city and get stuff done around the apartment (winterizing)! I take the train and a bus to work and it takes me 30-40 minutes in the morning and an hour to two hours in the afternoon(-: It's not bad, I get to read and listen to music and I don't have to worry about driving or running into mailboxes, which is awesome for me! Plus, Josh picks me up at the train station on his way home so it's ok that it takes that long.

Well I hope everyone is doing great, we miss you all SOOOOOOOOO much! My mom, dad, and sisters are coming up for Thanksgiving---can't wait to see you!!! We are meeting Linda, Jeff, Megan, and Brant in Kentucky for Christmas----can't wait to see you!!! Jason and Kerri are flying up for New Years---can't wait to see you!!! And Nick is driving back with us after we spend some time in NC---can't wait to see everyone in NC and you Nick!!! We're so excited to show off the city and see everybody, WE LOVE YOU!!! Keep the comments coming!!!