Chicago folk...

Hey, I don't know how many of you live in or near (North) Chicago, but it turns out that Babe and I will have a six hour layover at O'Hare on August 4th between 3:00 and 8:00 (the flight leaves at 9). That's a Tuesday. :(

Anyway, if any of you might be interested in meeting up, or if you know someone who might be interested in meeting up, I would be grateful for the distraction!

Or, alternately, maybe give me an idea of what to do, with a four-year-old, that doesn't take more than an hour or two (excluding travel time)? I would love to visit the Art Institute again, but I don't think Babe would enjoy that. And keeping Babe happy is the point of leaving the airport! (It's possible that he'd be happy enough to just ride on the El for the day... But we'll need food at some point, too.)

Why I love my husband

On explaining question marks to Babe:

"In English you read and read and read and then come to the end of the sentence and see a question mark and go, 'Aw man, I should have read that like a question'.

"But in Spanish, they're really clever. When it's a question, not only do they have a question mark at the end of the sentence, but they have an upside down question mark at the beginning of the sentence. So if you see an upside down question mark, you know you're reading Spanish."