Happy New Year!!

We sure packed a lot of things in the last few days of 2007. Eric's niece, Kierstyn, came to visit us for a few days so we took her all around town. We went pottery painting, visited American Girl, ate at Uno's and Ed Debevic's, had hot chocolate at the Signature Lounge (96th floor of the Hancock building) went to the Shedd Aquarium and the Adler Planetarium, and saw the lights at the Lincoln Park Zoo! I'm exhausted just thinking about it all.

Jen also took two of her nieces Jess and Cindy to Chicago as well. We all met up at Uno's for the best pizza in town!

While we were at the Shedd, a diver was in the center reef tank feeding the fish.

After the Shedd, we headed over to the Adler Planetarium to see outerwordly adventures. We went to a nice winter night sky show where they showed us what stars and constellations are visible in the current sky. Of course, you have to venture outside of Chicago city limits to be able to see most stars. It also looks like we will both be going to the moon in NASA's next moon mission.

Last but not least, we celebrated New Year's Eve in style. We hosted the NYE party this year, and we had a great crowd to ring in the new year with. Even Dawn and Brendan decided to suffer the weather and come up from Florida to participate in the festivities. Of course, any trip they go is required to have some luggage drama...their bag did not make it to our house until 24 hours after they had arrived...and let me point out that the bag arrived in Chicago only 2 hours after they did, so it took about 22 hours to deliver one bag 14 miles. What a statistic.

And don't worry about Vincent, he hasn't been ignored during all these events. He's been spending this whole time at puppy camp playing the days away. We pick him up tonight, and I'm sure he'll sleep the next two days solidly, but I'm sure he'll be happy to be back home and playing in the snow.