Goodbye to my First Place

310 W Miner St #3B
Arlington Heights, IL 60005

This past weekend, I packed up all of my remaining things in Arlington Heights and moved to the city to live with Danny. My place in Arlington Heights was my first apartment where I was solely responsible for everything!

I had a great landlord, Phil, and a perfect location to downtown Arlington Heights. Jewel-Osco was my next door neighbor, and bars/restuarants were a minutes walk away. There wasn't anything more that I could have asked for, for it being my first place.

The U-Haul truck was loaded in less than an hour and then unloaded by Danny, Brad and myself in under an hour as well. Unpacking and organizing everything is and probably will be another story in itself. And I am very excited to begin my new adventures with Danny and Maddie in the city!

erin

Stanley Cup Playoffs- Game 1

Danny, Kris and Tommy made it on TV again (and I saw them)! Blackhawks won their first game in overtime... scoring 12 seconds into the overtime!

When asked for comment about the game... he said "It was awesome & that he is losing his voice".

Cubs vs Yankees

We were very excited to go to New York city to see my sister and to go to a Cubs game.... (the Cubs game that got me out of running a half marathon) ;) We wore our Cubs gear on the plane and most of the day on Saturday!

The new yankee stadium was very cool
and right next to the old stadium. There were a
good amount of Cub fans... and we were only
heckled by a few drunken yankee fans. Before the
game we got to sneak down to the field and see
the Cubs warm up!

(or fall down and hurt themselves??)

So we have a picture of a tie game.....
And if you ask me... that was the final score.
The cubs did not loose like 1-10. haha.
What can I say, I am a true Cub fan and this
is the year that they will go all the way!!!!
~erin

Corner Bistro- New York City

YES... This is the burger that we had that began the cheating for our Lent Resolution of no meat. You can tell that I hadn't had meat in a real long time by the grease stain on my shirt! The burger was thick, messy and delicious!! After having this, there was no going back to a vegetarian life for us.

Anyone who goes to New York and wants a great Burger- go to the Corner Bistro.

Park

Yesterday morning, Erin and I decided to take a walk over to the park in Arlington Heights with Maddie. It was a partly cloudy day, but not much breeze and the air felt warm. We grabbed Maddie's ball and headed out. The walk was really nice, and we admired the houses as we walked by. (we have really fallen in love with a few of the houses in that area of Arlington Heights)
When we got to the park, Maddie met another Lab (yellow) that was a little over a year old and wanted to play play play! We let the two run around a bit, but they were both getting a little too worked up with one another. That's the drawback with two puppy's playing! The older dogs know when to cool it down!
We walked over to a corner of the park (it's really surprising how under utilized it was to me, the parks in Chicago always have a good number of people in them, especially on a day like that - I suppose people have yards, so why would they use a park...) Pulled out the ball and started tossing it back and forth between the two of us. It's become a pretty fun game with Maddie... Erin and I will stand about 30 yards away from each other and toss the ball, while Maddie (The Monkey in the Middle) will run back and forth after the ball.

Maddie ended up getting tired and laid down, I was able to capture a good photo of her though. It has immediately become one of our favorites.

Sitting outside drinking coffee

I think one of my most favorite things to do on a nice warm morning is to sit outside and drink coffee with good company.
We made it into Tucson late last night (our flight was delayed) and got to see Kelly, Sam and Chuck.
Erin forewarned me that Sampson would be a little apprehensive and probably not like me at first.... Well, I seem to be the Dog Whisperer... He warmed up to me right away, licking my hand and he even let me give him a belly rub.
It's great to be here in the nice weather (even though it was 60 yesterday in Chicago) and to have a beautiful backdrop of the southern Rocky Mountains!!!
Thanks Kelly!!!
-Danny

Hockey

Another TV appearance by me, danny and my dad's shoulder (next time we will try to get his face)! It was nice to see a 4-2 Blackhawks win over the Kings on Sunday afternoon.....

Only to come home and continue our Brother's and Sister's weekend TV marathon. I caught up on 5 past week episodes (on Saturday).... and then caught Danny up in my 10 minute version of what happened! We watched the 2 hour movie event last night and fell asleep during the last 15 minutes of the show (twice). So will have to finish it hopefully tonight. After we find out who wins the Bachelor. :)