Chicago!!!

Chicago was absolutely amazing! We got lucky and got into town just hours after all of the big storms ripped through the city. Bobby was able to get us a hotel just south of downtown on the 28th floor. Check out the view from our window.

Saturday was mainly spent wandering around downtown looking at all the cool buildings everywhere. Chicago has phenomenal amounts of cool buildings – unlike any other city I’ve been in. Even cooler – lots of them are residential! We also happened to run into David R. from Lifelong while shopping. It was great to have him spend some time exploring the city with us.

Here are a few of my favorite buildings from our wanderings and the boat ride.

This wall was cool - with bricks from all over-

Sunday we had a chance to go to the top of the Hancock center for brunch. I highly recommend having a meal or drink there. The view from 96 stories up is amazing. It’s said that you can see to Wisconsin from up there.

After Hancock – we had a chance to go into this great little church across the street. You can tell Bobby was having fun:

Finally – we had a chance to check out Millennium Park on the southside of downtown. Let me tell you… this park is friggen cool! They had this awesome chrome bean. I loved taking pictures of people taking pictures. Below are various pictures of the park.

This was a fountain - with video behind it. It even spits!

Click on the picture of Bobby below to see the rest of the pictures!

Anacortes Cabin 2.0

Anacortes Cabin trip 2.0 was a raging success! Thanks to Matt for organizing it and to everyone else for making it a good time. Here’s a brief synopsis of the trip through pictures.

The clouds were stunning


Blake and Jon fenced


Blake had a sock with a fluffy ball on it?


Barry threatened to beat me up


I slept


Doc Rocked it on the guitar


Alex posed for his new album cover


Kellan got drunk



We all stood on a log

More pics are available here

Also, Brian had a birthday last week - and I promised him I wouldn't post any pictures online...

Vancouver, BC Pride

This weekend was pride up in Vancouver. Of course, ever the photog, I had to attend to take some photos!

We headed up pretty early on Saturday morning and arrived in Vancouver just prior to noon. We managed to check into our hotel and discovered that we had a nice large room on the 21st floor! The addition of a balcony was fantastic and afforded great views of the city and of the fireworks (it was the international fireworks competition, after all.) Here’s a sampling of the photos I was able to take from our balcony:

The rest of the day was spent shopping, exploring and just enjoying Vancouver. It’s a very walkable, pretty city. The Harbour Centre is one of my favorite buildings as it is so similar to the space needle. I still haven’t had a chance to go up in it for drinks. Maybe sometime soon.

After we enjoyed some pre-funking with a bunch of people in our suite we went over to Celebrities for their annual pride party. The cover was $30 and Westbrook had been nice enough to grab them on Friday for us. Sadly, the music was not so hot at the club on this night. On the bright side… there were tons of people there! By 1:30am I was fast asleep (and from what I hear snoring LOUDLY!) Sorry Brian/Dorian. Oops.

Obviously my snoring kept Brian Kerr awake for far too long:

Sunday we had some food stuffs and then headed down to the parade route to stake out our spot. We had a nice spot in the shade right towards the end of the parade. The parade was good, not quite as good as SF… but still pretty darn good. Very few gaps – gotta love that! Several of my favorite pictures are below – click on any of them to see the rest!