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I got us as far as the Field Museum last time. While there we saw exhibits on Egypt and mummies, modern Africa, Mexican pottery, insects, Native Americans, and dinosaurs. We ate lunch in the museum, too.
Mid-afternoon we continued up Lake Shore Drive by downtown Chicago and on into Evanston. I lived in Evanston while I was in fifth through seventh grade while my mom was in seminary at G-ETS. We drove by the apartment we lived on at 540 Michigan Ave. There was actually parking available, so we got out to take a closer look. The apartments are no longer owned by the seminary, but they look about the same, perhaps with more security features, like a locked gate across the back stairways. We talked to an elderly man from the building next door. He wondered if we lived in the building or knew who had spray painted the sidewalk between the building. I told him I'd lived there in the mid to late 80s. He said he'd lived there since the 60s. I wonder if he is the same old man who yelled at us once when we were playing to be quiet so his grandchildren could sleep? His building had new back steps/balconies. The alley was much the same, and the parks are still there. We walked through them and saw the new playground equipment. The big field is still there, the one that they would flood each winter for a skating rink. We walked around the block.
We also drove past the schools I attended while we lived there. I attended most of fifth grade at Lincoln Elementary School and sixth and seventh grades at Nichols Middle School. We drove by the church we attended in Evanston (my mom did her field ed. there): Emmanuel UMC. We also drove by G-ETS. On the way out of town we drove by the beautiful Baha'i House of Worship. We finally (after bad directions and road construction) found our motel in Glenview and ate dinner at a nearby T.G.I. Fridays. We spent a quiet evening reading. Molly was reading the latest Harry Potter. I've been reading Anne Lamott's Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith (I have very much enjoyed her previous work, including Traveling Mercies) and Charles de Lint's Waifs and Strays and Blue Girl. Yep, I'm one of those types who reads more than one book at a time!
Hopefully, I finish the rest of the trip report in my next entry. Until then . . . peace :)
I got us as far as the Field Museum last time. While there we saw exhibits on Egypt and mummies, modern Africa, Mexican pottery, insects, Native Americans, and dinosaurs. We ate lunch in the museum, too.
Mid-afternoon we continued up Lake Shore Drive by downtown Chicago and on into Evanston. I lived in Evanston while I was in fifth through seventh grade while my mom was in seminary at G-ETS. We drove by the apartment we lived on at 540 Michigan Ave. There was actually parking available, so we got out to take a closer look. The apartments are no longer owned by the seminary, but they look about the same, perhaps with more security features, like a locked gate across the back stairways. We talked to an elderly man from the building next door. He wondered if we lived in the building or knew who had spray painted the sidewalk between the building. I told him I'd lived there in the mid to late 80s. He said he'd lived there since the 60s. I wonder if he is the same old man who yelled at us once when we were playing to be quiet so his grandchildren could sleep? His building had new back steps/balconies. The alley was much the same, and the parks are still there. We walked through them and saw the new playground equipment. The big field is still there, the one that they would flood each winter for a skating rink. We walked around the block.
We also drove past the schools I attended while we lived there. I attended most of fifth grade at Lincoln Elementary School and sixth and seventh grades at Nichols Middle School. We drove by the church we attended in Evanston (my mom did her field ed. there): Emmanuel UMC. We also drove by G-ETS. On the way out of town we drove by the beautiful Baha'i House of Worship. We finally (after bad directions and road construction) found our motel in Glenview and ate dinner at a nearby T.G.I. Fridays. We spent a quiet evening reading. Molly was reading the latest Harry Potter. I've been reading Anne Lamott's Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith (I have very much enjoyed her previous work, including Traveling Mercies) and Charles de Lint's Waifs and Strays and Blue Girl. Yep, I'm one of those types who reads more than one book at a time!
Hopefully, I finish the rest of the trip report in my next entry. Until then . . . peace :)
