A Blast of Winter, AGAIN!

Well, it looks like the snow if following me .  I landed here in Chicago and almost all their snow was gone.  However, I woke up to LOTS of the white fluffy stuff.  The one picture is on the roads on the way to the airport and then there is my dad snow blowing.  Thanks for your prayers for Shantell.  It was a little rough in the evening after the surgery but she is doing pretty good and camping out on the couch.  I will be here for a week helping out and spending time with family.

Packing Up

I will be flying out this afternoon and heading home. So it is time to pack away my apron, recipes, and bread pan. It has been a good week and I am glad for the time I have been here to help out my parents. Thanks so much to everyone who has been praying for my mom and her health. It is greatly appreciated.

Time Out

Yesterday I spent part of the day with two of my sisters and a niece. It was so nice to have that time together. In case you are wondering about the picture of the car. We parked in this parking garage and it was pretty abandoned, like the scene from a scary movie. We were wondering if anyone knew some thing we didn't. It was a good thing it was the middle of the day and not at night. We had never seen anything like it. But our car was still there when we got back.

The Windy City

Everything went well for me and I am now in the Windy City. Although, I do have to say it was pretty cold and windy in Buffalo. It was a welcome surprise that it isn't as chilly here. (I might even be able to go for some walks without freezing.)

My kind of town, Chicago is

We make it into Chicago several times a year but since we are usually busy visiting our family we don't make it downtown. Titus has really been wanting to go to a museum. He has an interest in things like "mummies". So we took part of Monday to take the "L" downtown and go to The Field Museum.













When I was a kid it seemed like we would take a field trip every year to a museum. I had no interest in going again for a long time. I had not been to the field museum in about 30 years. It was fun after so many years to walk around and see all the different displays. There were all sorts of stuffed animals. Some of them had been in the Chicago zoo and had died and then were stuffed and donated to the museum. There was quite a display on all the groups of Native Americans. Some how that didn't seem too impressive to me like when I was a kid. I think it is because we lived with people who still weave baskets and bags just like what was on display. So I felt more like I was walking into a tribal village in Venezuela then in a room in a museum.















Here are the mummies that Titus was wanting to see. There was this "tomb" that you could walk into. There were all sorts of carvings on the walls and then the many different mummies.
























This sign was hanging up and there was a curtain you were supposed to open. Behind the curtain was a mirror so you could see what was the most unusual primate. (Titus cooperated very well for this picture.)