Mega-tron Dancing To Caribou With Cap'n Jazz During a Korean BBQ picnic in Graceland Cemetery

Megatron's (Megan's) pictures of the set of Transformers 3 on Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago

Cars piled up on the Michigan Ave. Bridge

Michael Bay blowing stuff up

Here's Bubblebee.

Picking up after making a mess.

Probably a bit different than the view from your office, eh?

The honeymoon is over... First thing I saw back at the office when I got back from Portugal referring to a huge stack of papers needing to be processed... Hmmmm...

Caribou at Millennium Park

dance party!

"Eye" by Tony Tasset on State Street

Eating Korean BBQ with Frances and Noah at San Soo Gab San

Wicker Park Festival

Cap'n Jazz

Megan and I went to the famous Graceland Cemetery in Chicago to see all the famous dead people. This is Allen Pinkerton who founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which became famous for saving Abraham Lincoln from one assassination attempt. They are probably most famous for being strikebreakers and beating up or killing members of unions on behalf of industrialists.

William Le Barron Jenney invented the skyscraper.

An creepy grave of some pioneers

George Pullman of Pullman Sleeping Car fame. Pullman Sleeping Cars were state-of-the-art luxury train cars in their day.

Louis Sullivan was an influential modern architect and mentor to Frank Llyod Wright.

Potter Palmer was one of the founders of Marshall Field's Department Store (now Macy's). He also built the Palmer House Hotel so his wife, Bertha, had something to keep her occupied.

Daniel Burnham was an urban planner and architect. He and Edward Bennett created the 1909 Plan of Chicago, which really transformed Chicago from a nasty, polluted swamp town into the beautiful metropolis you know today.

Philip Armour is the REAL "Sausage King of Chicago." He was the first to can meat and to use a reverse assembly line method it butchering (instead of assembling a car, they tore apart a cow). Also famous for being the focus of Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle, about poor labor conditions and knowingly selling tainted meat.

Is it too late to add "large 'Me Fat' box of chocolates" to our wedding registry?

Phil came to town and we just happened to find Market Days in Boystown. We should have known something was going on when we saw a tranny fight at the train station...

That about sums it up। Back to living a normal life of grocery shopping, work, and playing Madden...
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Mike and Megan's Honeymoon: Day 12 - Well, the Honeymoon's Over...

July 9th

The day of reckoning is near. The honeymoon is almost over and time to get back to the real world...

I swear they filmed this TV show for 24 hours. It's like a marathon of the Portuguese Regis and Kathy Lee

Here they are. I love that they didn't bring a chair and table from a set. This was just from a local diner next door.

The Portuguese Michael Jackson. We saw him walking around town quite a bit and they decided to put him on TV and dance. It was surreal because people were yelling "MICHAEL!" as if he really was Michael Jackson.

Now to cross the river to get on one of these boats ourselves

Enter Sandeman. These boats are known as Rabelos and were used to transport the wine from the Douro Valley, 60 miles away, to Porto. Now, it's tourists.

Ponte Dom Luis by Teofilo Seyfrig from the 1880s. He was a student of Gustave Eiffel of Eiffel Tower fame

Little French girls

Living in Chicago, I've grown to learn what a body recovery from a river looks like. Someone jumped or was dumped it seems...

Ponte Dona Maria Pia by Gustave Eiffel in 1877 with the Ponte S. João behind it.

Constructed in 1991 as a modern railroad bridge

Eiffel again

Heading back to the Ribeira district

The Serra do Pilar Monastery

Still filming the TV show...

A huge customs house

Some church from the 1300s. Notice that they ran out of space for a road, so they just built a bridge running parallel to the land

Ponte de Arrãbida opened in 1963

Old mansion or something. They don't tear buildings down, they let things remain until someone wants it again. There's a lesson to be learned from that...

Café Majestic is a very classy place. Too classy for us...

What? Your building isn't at street level? Build a walkway so it is!

Last kiss in Portugal after musicians played to us for dinner.

Porto's airport from the future

Lisbon (Lisboa) from the sky

That's where we stayed. Just north of the perfectly squared streets of the Baixa district.

Megan's sad that the honeymoon is over and we are heading back to the States. Apparently, I didn't get the memo and thought we were just going somewhere else that was awesome. We didn't and now my life is work and groceries again...

Thanks again to everyone for everything related to our wedding! Thanks to all the people who checked out all our honeymoon pics! Thank you thank you thank you!!!

Mike and Megan