Tuesday, July 22, 2025

UP Tour - Day 0 - Happy Birthday to Me

 Today is my birthday. I went on a nice bike ride, ate Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream Cake my sisters bought me, and went to a Cubs game.

When we were all little, we all belonged to the Baskin-Robbins Birthday Club, which meant you got a free ice cream cone on your birthday. Kate and Mandy thought my birthday was a great excuse to go get an ice cream cake.


It's mint chocolate chip ice cream as it should be.

My morning bike ride started with a nice trail through wetlands.


Then I went west to the land of office parks and no bike shoulders, then south past so many golf courses, then east through Skokie, where there are many, many Mid-century Mondern buildings.




And then through Evanston to the lakefront.


This is on the Northwestern University campus.



I met up with my sisters for lunch at Kate's shop in Winnetka.


She has a lot of cool stuff in  there.



Here's Kate with the flowers she just bought at the wholesale florist.



Her shop is two blocks from the "Home Alone" house. I told her I rode by the "Home Alone" house and took a picture. 

Kate: "You are such a tourist."
me: "Well, my picture includes a tourist taking a picture."


Then we went to the Cubs game. The Cubs got clobbered by the Royals 12-4. They for some reason decided to rest their starting pitchers and use only relievers. This was not a good plan, and it went so badly they had a position player pitch the 9th inning.


I got an Old Style and an Italian Beef.


Mandy did what the song says.

I had a very fun visit.

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