Drove up to Long Grove today

It was raining all morning so we could get out in the yard. Thought if we drove North maybe we'd get away from the rain. We were right. As we got there we discovered that the Strawberrry Festival was going on so you couldn't drive through town. We found a close parking space and headed in. Really busy with all kinds of outdoor booths, food, beer, bands. They had lots of live music and it was pretty good.

Grabbed a hamburger then went to a chocolate fondue booth and got a strawberry, marshmallow, rice crispy treat, pound cake thing on a stick dipped in dark chocolate. We looked at some old cars, went in some shops, listened to a band, got some coffee and headed back.

Stopped in Elmhurst and had dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings. We had never been there before. Food was good but MILD was too spicy for us :-)

Elmhurst is shwoing turtles around town this year; I just grabbed a few

Shedd Aquarium

Had lunch at the Soundings Restaurant there yesterday with Amy and Lori and the grandkids.  Basic admission was free so the aquarium itself was badly overcrowded and we had to park over at Soldier Field.  The restaurant wasn't crowded though so we had a nice lunch.  Kyle and Lindsey had a real nice time.  The views from there are great.

Father's Day

Had a great Father's Day.  We went to Millennium Park so the kids could run around in the Crown fountain.  It was a pretty hot day but not unbearable by the fountain.  There was a nice shade tree for Scarlett.

Went across the street for lunch/brunch at a relatively new place we hadn't hear of before called The Gage. We thought the food was pretty good. It's sort of an Irish Pub kind of place.  I got a nice pair of shorts and shirt from the kids. Jerry and Carol were there and Steve, Dollie and Chris too.

After we got home Jill and I went out to Oak Brook and I got a few shots of the old cars.

Cicadas in the news

Every 17 years we get an “invasion” of cicadas around Chicago. They came by the millions and millions last month and are still here.

 

 I took a few pictures and put them on Flickr at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/arthill/sets/72157600264887716/

A reporter from Yahoo emailed me asking to use some of my cicada pictures.  She then interviewed me by phone.  I thought she was going to run a web article but to my surprise they are running this slideshow with my voice as the narrator.  Many of the pictures are mine - some are from others.  You can watch the names up in the top left of this video.  The voice over is all me.

Check it out

http://news.yahoo.com/page/cicada