chicago with the girls

okay, so i'm a bit behind on posting photos. i'm working on it. :) these are from the trip liz, joanie, julie and i took downtown last month. it was too chilly to walk around looking at lights, so we drove around instead. i popped open the sunroof as we passed the Chicago Theater, and the light stayed red long enough to get a couple of nice night shots. too bad there wasn't a better show on the board. sure, it's Cirque Du Soleil ... but Banana Shpeel? really?

summer vacation

summer of 2009 consisted of a lot of baseball games,



my first visit to the porter county fair,




a couple of amazing road trips,


and a total of almost 2500 photos taken.

driving home

the past two times i've driven out to warsaw, my drive home has been marked with stormy skies.


with the clouds breaking up as i travel west.


giving way to sunny skies.


and gorgeous cloudscapes in the sideview mirrors.

the 51st state

we drove through the night on thursday, arriving at our hotel friday morning at about 5:15 local time. this is us crossing the bridge into canada. i know, it's not a great photo - but it was 2:30 in the morning. a detail not overlooked by the border crossing guard. he took our passports and started asking the customary (i assume) questions: where are you from? (indiana & illionois) how do you know each other? (school & work) where are you going? (niagara falls) at 2:30 in the morning?!? it was funny. :)


a little bit of the town in which we're staying.


and the tunnel we get to drive through when we go to niagara falls ... or drive the wrong way looking for an arby's. :)

back from colorado

i could write a long post about the trip to colorado. i really could. but i uploaded a healthy set of photos to my flickr site, and if you read through the descriptions you'll get the whole story. so, here are a few of my favorites. and a link to the photos on flickr. enjoy!

missing details

i've vaguely mentioned the trip to louisville last week, but not given any detail. not that you asked for the details, but i'm going to give them to you anyway. ;)

i left work early on wednesday, and beth & i drove down to louisville. we made it to mel & dan's around 11pm and stayed about 15 hours. we had breakfast at lynn's paradise cafe on thursday morning, followed by shopping at some of the fabulous li'l shops. if you saw my silver necklace friday or saturday, that was my birthday gift to myself - courtesy of the trip to louisville. it was much too quick of a trip, but completely worth it. almost every time i visit louisville i say to myself, "self, you should move here & do something completely different with your life."


tonight, as i expected, i got much better photos out of my big camera than i did out of my little one. this one, however, makes me pretty happy. granted, i had to photoshop it to get any detail at all. but it makes me think of a poorly made horror movie on old grainy film.

i love when photoshop is used as a verb.

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'becca had every intention of being in bed two hours ago.