My birthday was last Tuesday. It was a beautiful sunny day so I chose to spend it on the golf course. My gift was a Talylor Made Burner 5 Wood and I just had to try it out. Well my other birthday present to myself was the best game of golf, not only for this year, but forever. We followed it up by a great dinner and, of course the real best part of the day was the phone calls from the children, and all of the wonderful wishes posted on my facebook wall.
We postponed the annual Chicago Lakefront bike ride until the next day to give us a day to rest up after our Door County trip. As is our custom we were joined by our friends Nancy and Phil. Last year we noted that people were riding on Northerly Island as we viewed it from the back of McCormick Place, so our priority this year was to explore the island which none of us has been to since it was known as Mieg's Field. We were not disappointed. What a beautiful place former Mayor Daley has engineered. Another amazing space making Chicago one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
After we left the island we proceeded around the Planitarium to join up with the Lakefront Trail only to be impeded by a security guard who would not allow us to pass as a crew was filming and I guess they didn't want the world to know that people actually ride bikes in the city. It turns out they were filming American Idol tryouts. We volunteered to sing but he was h
aving none of it so we took a bizarre detour and headed north. We stopped at Navy Pier for our annual birthday lunch at Harry Caray's and proceeded a ways north until we decided it was time to turn around to beat the rush hour traffic home.
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| The wild flowers on the island were just amazing |
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