The Point Of No Return... Or of Return? What Are We Doing Again?

My neighbor Blago in street graffiti dancin' like a fool!

The Gold Coast Art Fair, which ironically isn't even in the Gold Coast.

Free and, in this economy means, crowded

Buckingham Fountain will always remind me of meeting a Czech couple in the middle of nowhere Portugal saying to us in broken English, "Oh Chicago. My favorite show is Married With Children."

Paris on the Prairie

big sail boat in Burnham Harbor

Megan's family calls these style of boats "Rodney Dangerfield's" because of his classic scene in Caddyshack. I have to say, it's pretty appropriate.

The Wrigley Building from the Riverwalk

It may look pretty, but there is no way you are going to get me that close to the Chicago River's water in a kayak

Hard Rock Hotel (Carbon and Carbide Buidling)

Megan enjoying her giant burger and giant fries at Five Guys

Strange architecture in Lincoln Park. Here are two apparent single family homes. They weren't big enough and so a strange tower addition was constructed to combine the both. It's like a Victorian McMansion Medieval castle house...

AIA Chicago gave this frame and artwork to us for our wedding. It's titled "He Was a Friend of Mine." Ok, so there's a dog made of clouds. A sinister cat. We're they friends? Is this title sarcastic? What evil things has this cat done? What is going on?

"No, the Middle Ages Would Have Been the Worst Time To Poop!

First things first:
CANstruction starts tomorrow night. This is the 4th year Megan has been a part of this food drive event. Please check it out at the Merchandise Mart: http://www.chicagosfoodbank.org/canstruction

Here are some pics from previous CANstructions:

http://mikekraus.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-pics-of-more-stuff.html

http://mikekraus.blogspot.com/2008/06/moment-that-sweet-nectar-of-bbq-sauce.html

http://mikekraus.blogspot.com/2007/06/summer-is-official.html

Second, if you are looking for information on our wedding, the website address for that is: http://www.mywedding.com/bellkraus

Onward to the photographic evidence...

Roddy came to town and we checked out a girls rugby tournament that one of his friends was in.

Almost everyone of these pics contains someone getting or with a concussion.

Here's a "twoffer." Two girls with concussions here. Can you find them?

After lying fairly still and repeating "It's my head," which sounded like "a bag a Jello hitting cement, the girl down on the right was being asked by the trainer "Can you count backwards by threes starting at 20?" She looked at him with a blank stare and said, "What? Uhhhh..."

"Can you count back by threes from 20?"

"Uhhhh..."

"She's dyslexic. She couldn't do that before" a teammate chimed in.

Bill, Roddy, and I.

The spread at my work's Cinco de Mayo potluck. Where the rice and mini tacos were delicious and their was chips and salsa as far as the eye could see. It was the best day of my career...

The arteries of American commerce are the long trains through the Midwest...

The Green Tea and Honey Liqueur Martini

Featured liqueur of AIA's Martini Party. Some kind of crazy Germany honey alcohol. Fascinating website: http://www.barenjagerhoney.com

IT'S THE DAIRY QUEEN BLIZZARD MOBILE!

Thanks to the ladies at my work for using our connections to the Children's Miracle Network to bring this fine ice cream establishment on wheels to my office!

Goofy film student interviewing a DQ cheerleader/Flip camera guy. Notice the ice cream on the kid's head.

Finally, please check out CANstruction at the Merchandise Mart. It's a great event for an even better cause: http://www.chicagosfoodbank.org/canstruction

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Al and Peg Bundy Pick Up Fonzi In a Spaceship To Go See "The Boss."

The Morton Arboretum sometime in October... This is a Mulberry. Like from the children's song. It's the size of a softball and feels like a hard brain. Megan and I ate cactus with squash. Cactus tastes like a pepper that mated with a tomato. For Ronan The most difficult item to find in Chicagoland. I went to every hardware store in the region to find this. Menards, Home Depot, and Ace all had the fancy $50 electronic ones, which is like using a bazooka to go deer hunting. AIA DesignNight. Megan's big event a couple of days before she graduated from grad school Peg and Al Bundy on Halloween Grandma Kraus' 75th birthday. She's with uncle Don Chicago kids are weird Megan and I took a quick day trip to Milwaukee and here's their spaceship art museum The view of Muskegon from Milwaukee the "Predator/Alien" top opens Fonzi Monument. Megan and I couldn't find the Lavern and Shirley Memorial though... Why is Megan so excited to be at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee? Who's the Boss? He's the Boss! Bruce Springsteen coming to our part of the floor to sing Katie came up from Florida to celebrate!