This year we had a surprise—snow on the twelfth of October. So much snow in our area that, Savannah and I made a snow woman. I’ve posted pictures of it in the photos section under Savannah, October. I was just getting in the mood to take fall pictures, but that snow really messed up my sense of seasons (and my seasonal spirit!). Ah well.

I figured I ought to change the info on this page since August was so long ago. But, uh, there isn’t much I can say about our lives right now except that they are very, very busy. Okay, everything else I want to write sounds stupid when I write it, so I guess that’s all for now.

This weekend we drove down to Chicago for an anniversary celebration (our wedding anniversary was on the 13th). It was kind of an unusual anniversary celebration though because we took our child along with us. Now, this may seem odd but we didn’t want Savannah to have to experience her first overnight away from us just two weeks after having Mom get back from being gone for two whole weeks. But we had a lot of fun anyway.

On Saturday we checked out Chinatown and all its shops (and of course did some shopping). We had a good Chinese lunch and then later an EXCELLENT Chinese dinner at Lao Sze Chuan restaurant. This is the second time we’ve been there and it is so good. We can personally recommend the very spicy Dried Chilli Chicken (this has about–and I’m not kidding–thirty dried chillis in this one dish). We loved it!

On Sunday we played a little at Hyde Park while we waited for the Museum of Science and Industry to open. There was a special DaVinci exhibit that you can see some photos of in our photos section. But the exhibit that Savannah liked best was the frogs exhibit! Lately she has been just loving scaring the frogs in our pond into the water and so the frog exhibit was right up her alley. Not that she could scare these, but she enjoyed seeing them anyway. One of the frogs was so poisonous that it contained enough toxins in it to kill 10 humans and several horses–making it the most deadly creature in the world. Wow–keep that one in its cage. There were some very beautiful frogs though. Then as the whinning began to crescendo we knew it was time to make our exit (the Savannah whinning that is). What a great time we had!