Some friends are family! Do you know what I mean? I hope you do! Last weekend was a wonderful blend of both! If you are lucky you will have people who support you, laugh with you, cry with you and pull you up when you are down. I hope you have a core of people that is always there...a group of people that are woven together with love and time. This weekend I felt truly blessed! It started when I received an interesting dark brown envelope in my mailbox. It was an invitation to a wedding. Brian was getting married! "Oh...", I had to take a long breath and stopped what I was doing. How can it be? How can time have made that little boy into a man? I had to physically stop what I was doing and sit with the invitation in my lap. Memories of our two families flooded in . We lived just a few houses apart. There a was a space in time that belonged just to our two families. Our boys shared their first days of school together...preschool even! They were good days! We were ALL Best Friends....our sons like brothers. So the phone lines began to buzz. Airplane tickets were bought by my son and daughter-in-law to come home to celebrate Brian's wedding. A trip to Chicago was planned. Friday found me weaving through traffic with a suitcase in the back of my truck. I love to be with the people I love. It was a wonderful weekend! We came together in the city. It was good to be in Chicago again.
You've met these two before.....well here they are again....Paul and Laura in Chicago.
Joined by Ben and Sibylle who flew in from San Diego.
We walked the streets and took in the sites...the thing about Chicago is there are things to see everywhere you look.
Author, Elizabeth Berg wrote in one of her books that after you have seen art, art is all you can see. Chicago holds some of the world's greatest art. Honestly, I see it everywhere I look when I visit the city.
Next we shopped the markets.
We bought peaches and raspberries from the vendors.
We peeked into the windows of the shops.
We stopped at Starbucks, got some coffee and wished we could eat one of every thing in the bakery case.....
Stay tuned for the rest of the story!
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