Happy Mothers Day!
To all the Moms!
Oscar, as you can see, is getting ready to roll on up to Minnesota.
We are very excited about our new digs and great neighborhood! Of course, we’re sad to leave Chicago after 10 years. We’ll try to get in as much catching up with friends as we can, but it’s all going so fast.
For those of you not familiar with Minneapolis, here’s a little background:
It has kind of a funny name…it’s a combination of the Dakota Souix word for water, “mni”, and the greek word for city, “polis”.
This is the neighborhood we’re moving to, it’s in an area known as “southwest” (yes, quite literal were the folks who first named it). The house is located at 50th and Russel. Technically, according to the City, the area is called “Fulton“, although I couldn’t tell you if people actually refer to it that way. The reason we like the location so much is that it’s in a little pocket between Lake Harriet and Minnehaha Creek.
Here’s some pics other people have of:
Lake Harriet
Lake Harriet is connected to Lake Calhoun…
Which is connected to Lake of the Isles…
Which is why, as you can start to see, that Minnesota is known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes. In typical Minnesota fashion, they are understating the fact that there are actually over 12,000 lakes.
Some people will try to tell you it’s very cold up in Minnesota. Some of these people are from Chicago, in which I’ve lived enough winters to tell you that you’d be splitting hairs with that comparison. Anyway, in Minnesota we like to say there’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothes.
What will we miss about Chicago? A lot! Besides our friends, we will miss:
The Confounding Conundrum of the Chicago Cubs (I will do my best to afflict Oscar with the lifelong lesson in patience supplied by this organization)
The Bulls
The Bears
Healthy Food
Trains
And the King of All Lakes
And in no particular order, some honorable mentions:
Lucille’s
Tuscany
Lange’s
Wrigley Dog
Weiner Circle
Boston Blackies
Redmonds
Twisted Spoke
The Burwood Tap
Northwoods Tap
Mayor Daley and Clout
The alley and all the people who shop in our garbage
Thai Oscar
The Cab Driver who Sings
The Cab Driver who hit us with a taser
The Cab Driver with Strawberry Shortcake stickers
Montrose Beach
The Air Show
Belmont Harbor
I could go on and on, we’ll have to add more to the list later on. For a lot of years, Chicago has been our kind of town.
Drop us a line when you’re up Nort’!