Just before New Years, I took the kids over to Northwestern to show them where Mommy went to school. It was fun to be back on campus (hadn't been there in years) and show them my old places. We started with a car tour of campus and then then where I lived.
The Jeppeson House. It looked bad when we lived there, Chryssi, Spike, Kelly and I back in 1999, and it's in even worse shape now! The front steps and porch are a wreck!
After our car tour, we went for a walk along the lake, Lake Michigan to be exact (ask the kids about the great lakes - they got a quick lesson and can name a few!), and freezing in the 20 degree temps and sleet flying in our faces. This is by my pull-up tree, but they had cut down the branch I did my pull-ups on. Or I just had the wrong tree. But I'm pretty sure this was the tree as you could see where the branch was cut. It was low enough I could jump up on and do pull-ups. As Spike said, it was probably better that they had cut that branch down so I couldn't be sad about how few pull-ups I could now do compared to 10 years ago... Perspective... thanks Spike!
Then we went to one of my favorite places for lunch, Olive Mountain. My dad took me there several times when he was in Evanston. He introduced me to falafels. And I wanted to take my kids there too!
Before heading home, we visited the book store and picked up NU shirts for the kids. Emily got a cute purple NU dress which we winterized so she could wear here in Chicago now. And Kyle got a #1 NU jersey which he likes wearing. He loves number shirts because they are his sports shirts and make him run fast!
Little NU girl
