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super de duper weekend

thursday after a long dome day liz & i made our way back to the adler for a going away picnic for elena (her last day was friday).  it was super fun.  we brought a variety of food and a lot of it.  and we just talked.  
Liz & I printed this for Elena's going away "gift"

yep... lots of food
then we decided we needed to take some pictures.  it's funny how when i tell some people i work at the adler they say "best view of the city" or something like that.  which is true, but we definitely don't appreciate it enough.  so we went over to take some pictures with that beautiful view.  

i was still sporting the adler look, which we all dislike




i have no idea who's idea it was to try the jumping thing.  it is SO hard to get everyone in the air at the exact same time.  luckily, mark, one of the astronomers, came over and is super techy so immediately figured out the delay on the camera and stuck with us until all our feet were off the ground.  we just kept laughing, counting, and we even did an AE (assistant educator) cheer.

2 of our many attempts


friday karen & mom arrived for their glee concert.  (the reason for their weekend trip)  i went along, but wasn't super enthusiastic about it.  i mean lots of people made shirts and stuff, which i didn't understand, then all the songs had back stories, which i didn't understand.  but karen really enjoyed herself so i figure it was a success.

saturday was a pretty hot day in chicago (finally!).  for us it involved breakfast at ann sather's (karen & mom's favorite). a trip to the farmer's market (which i never get to go to anymore since i work on saturdays).  so that was a special treat.  mexican dinner including margaritas at el mariachi, which is a cute little local place.  second city.  and some walking, which mom classified as walking to timbuktu and karen gave me dirty looks the whole time.  it's just not quite what they're used to.
i MISS saturdays.  hopefully that will change sooner rather than later.

and today was just perfect, perfect weather!  seriously, i could have been comfortable in a dress, shorts, tshirt, tank, pants, sandals, etc.  if everyday's weather  was just like today i would be very very happy.
i got to spend some time at the lake and i went to the human rights watch film festival to see youth producing change (a series of shorts).  and it didn't hurt that the cards swept the cubs for the first time since may 09.  and yesterday and todays games ended with walk off homers by pujols.  so exciting.

and i wrapped it all up scrubbing my floor (not a fun part, but necessary).  it always reminds me of scrubbing our floor in mexico ALL THE TIME!  it is rather ridiculous when i think back to how many times i scrubbed the floor in that year.  

but this weekend set the bar high for summer.  if i have several weekends of this caliber i'll be a happy woman.
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