Vacation time is here again. With all the excitement of earlier this year, we decided to stay close to home for the week.
First, a stop at Frontier Days where we saw American English on the 4th and Kansas on the 6th:


…and here’s Sears Tower as seen from the top of the Ferris Wheel (it’s faint and to the left of the antenna tower):

…then, out traditional first-of-the-summer visit to Superdawg:

We spent a day at Gurnee Mills:

Followed by dinner at Green Basil Thai, including this soft-shell crab:

And there’s more of the week to go.