"Shoot A Pickle!"

Howdy Y'all!


The Hibarito from Baranquen on California and Wabansia. "Hibarito" translates into "hillbilly." I guess in Puerto Rico, people are so poor on the interior of the island that they can't afford bread. But, they have more plantains then you can imagine. So, they crush and fry plantains and use that as bread instead. Super good. Super unhealthy...


Going back home after seeing "American Gangster" in Oak Park with the free movie tickets Megan won. I still have to use my tea party I won...


Good Stuff House. Says it all.


It's been a few years since I've seen real snow that sticks around. It feels like home.


Richmond Street.


Cleaning off Saaby-McSaaberton.


The "One of a Kind Show" at the Merchandise Mart. Pretty much an indoor arts fair. There was some pretty good stuff and lots of good food samples for the holidays.


The Merchandise Mart convention atrium.


Christkindlmarket in Daley Plaza. This is an annual German Christmas market that sells all kinds of toys and trinkets along with brats and hot spiced wine.


Nick got his x-mas gift of a Nintendo Wii early. So, that means you'll see everyone punching each other by accident playing video games and the Murder House from now on.


Megan simulating fishing


Nick with the remote controlled x-mas tree behind him


Megan trying to figure out how to play a game where you have to match up people's poses...

That's about it for now. Noah and Frances, you will see pics from the party last night next time. I had these edited before we left and didn't feel like adding more...

xoxo,

Mike

Thanksgiving In Manistee

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. It's one of my favorite holidays. Just hang out, eat food, and watch football. Way better than X-mas. WAAAY Better...


Megan at the Nummerdor Cabin up in Manistee, Michigan.


Brian, Nick and Andrew plotting a fire


Karli giving the gang sign for the Van Buren Boys Gang (Seinfeld reference).


Karli sporting her new watch.


Gathering around the fire




Brian, Katie, Andrew, and Karli


Anyone who knows the Nummerdor Cabin knows the Kozy Kitchen. I like the two egg meal with meat and potatos for $5.65


The description above describes it all...


Looks like a normal house, right?


Just a thousand or so bottles stacked on their side makiing up the walls of the house.


A totem pole of a man with a beaver on his head outside of the bottle house.


Andrew and Nick inside the Bottle House/Kaleva Historic Museum reviewing every class that has ever graduated from Kaleva High School.


Here's a creepy student that model of "Gary," which it what a student at Kaleva High School would have looked like.


Tennessee in his hunting gear at the Cabin


Campfire with Tennessee in foreground


Brian and Nick


Cliff on the hog


Hiking in the Manistee National Forest. The trail we're on runs from Delaware to Montana (if I remember correctly).








Megan of the Northern Woods.






So, we bought frozen pizza and then there was no gas for the stove. Hmmm. So, Tyler helped rig up a hobo grill and baked some good pizza. Somehow it worked and the pizza was great. Otherwise, it was going to be Wheat Thins for dinner...


Jared, Tyler, and Mike Nummerdor at the campfire. We spent a lot of time at the campfire.


Karli and Tennessee keeping warm in the cabin.


Mike Nummerdor looks like a wizard from Harry Potter. He's melting a milk jug.


Now the wizard is lighting off bottle rockets.


Nick finally caught Tennessee so we can get breakfast.


Brian, Katie, and Andrew on Dale's log


Andrew and Steve shooting pool.


Brian on some kind of scientific expedition.


Brian shooting a potato gun full of a bag of sand.


Katie, Andrew, and Nick on the side of Big M. This hill use to be a ski hill, but now it's a part of the Manistee National Forest.


Karli reaching the summit of Big M.


Mike Nummerdor posing for a monument to be dedicated to him in the future.


Megan with the vast expanse of Michigan behind her.


Megan


Mike Nummerdor gazing at the Northern Woods








Megan scaling down Big M


Brian taking a break after coming down Big M


This is Ian. He greeted us at Zeppi's Pizza in Brethren, Michigan. He was a pretty funny kid. He liked my keys and tried to steal them from me.


Nick, Katie, Matt, and Tyler at the final campfire before going home...


The Booty Hunter prepares to head back to Chicago...

It was a great Thanksgiving and a HUGE thanks to Nick and Mike Nummerdor for the invite to the cabin!!!

xoxo,
Mike