12-4-17

• First stop...hand grenades at Tropical Isle
• Lee at Tequila House
• Mother and Jerry waiting patiently at Port of Call
• Group shot
• Lee ready to dive into that burger
• Me and Megan
• Mother and Britt at Pat O'Brien's
• Lee and Dad
• Not the most entertaining place for us
• Pretty quiet night thus far
• Group shot
• Neighborhood watch
• Lee in the barber chair at Spirits
• dad's turn
• Guess he enjoyed that
• Not sure what that was
• Me and Dad
• Lee and Britt
• Mother and Megan
• Must have been a good jam
• Wonder what that was...probably us
• Jerry enjoying himself
• Britt's turn for the chair
• A birthday song for Dad
• Getting into the music I think
• Megan and Mother enjoying 3 for 1's
• They found me by one of the bands
• Must have been good
• DJ Britt in action
• Lee and I got Lucky Dogs
• Her first one
• Group shot
• one last one at the airport with James

12-1-17

• Amy and Brynley in Michigan
• Britt and Phil
• Lee and Amy
• Bryn entertaining herself
• The rest of the kids playing outside
• Those tents saved the trip...at least the temperature was nice
• Macie and Grace loved the rain gear
• And being outside
• All the kids in the rain
• Didn't stop the golf cart rides
• Bryn made it outside too
• The kids loved it
• Kyle and Cole
• Now with Bryn
• Nate on the four wheeler
• Must have gotten a break form the rain for a minute
• Can almost see Nate's smile
• Macie's turn
• A little closer
• Still standing
• House is looking good
• Macie around the hole
• Kyle on the stump
• Duke on the prowl
• Lee and Kyle
• Kyle's turn for the four wheeler
• Nate's turn with nature
• Me, Phil, and dad
• Lee driving the golf cart around
• Nate and Macie by the back 40
• Macie on the four wheeler
• Dad and the kids
• Mother working on the chili
• Mark and the dogs
• Group shot number 1
• And another
• By the house now
• Grandparents
• Me, Jenny, and Mark
• Kyle by the shed
• Nice family photo

11-30-17   

• Lee and Mother and Carri and John's wedding
• Lee and Phil
• Lee and Angela
• Beautiful room for the reception
• Me and Jenny outside
• Lee flexing
• Mother and Dad
• Lee and Phil
• Me and Lee
• Lee and Dad
• Hulking up
• All of us
• Jenny snooping around
• Elsewhere she probably doesn't belong
• Owen entertaining himself...and all of us
• What could go wrong?
• That look...haha
• Lee's turn with him.

10-12-17

• Beautiful day for Lady Gaga at Wrigley Field
• She had her own flag outside
• At Vine's on clark listening to sound check
• Our seats
• Just below the press box
• It was a good show
• My birthday Saturday in Wrigleyville
• At Nate's baseball game
• Macie playing on the hill
• Kyle found a tree to climb
• Kyle loves his soccer games
• It was hot
• Balloon making at Lucas and Logan's birthday party
• Cake time!!
• Double trouble
• Time to get cleaned up
• Kyle and his balloon hat
• Nate and his now
• Kyle and Cole
• Macie and Brynley

9-17-17    Last Day

• Cloudy/rainy last day in DC
• First stop was the Supreme Court...had to walk all the way around
• Taft did it all
• John Marshall
• The spiral staircase we couldn't go by
• John Jay bust
• we were a few minutes late for the chamber tour we didn't know about
• The other side of the exterior...much nicer to look at
• Next stop...
• Fountains at ground level
• The entrance
• Quite a ceiling
• The interior
• The circulation desk
• A Guternberg Bible
• Underground tunnel to the Capitol
• Magna Carta replica
• Inside the Capitol rotunda
• Zoomed in to the top where the rare tour occurs
• Below the rotunda where we were standing
• Declaration of Independence
• The Speaker's office
• the old House chamber
• Now outside and up close finally
• One more
• Time to kill before the delayed flight
• Flight of ice cream

9-15-17    Smithsonians

• First stop was Air and Space
• The Hubble telescope
• Small scale
• The Capitol on the way to the next one
• Natural History was next
• Never thought of a turtle like this
• Not her favorite I guess
• Rays
• American History
• And there it is
• Was it like that in the wax museum?
• Vietnam War era
• the Berlin Wall
• Sichuan Pavilion for dinner...Peking duck
• Mark and I shared
• After a little picking
• Francis Scott Key Memorial in Georgetown
• A lot of activity on the water
• Looking toward DC
• They've been warned
• All playing in the water
• Almost like the Bellagio, but not
• Enjoying a nice night out
• Long line for ice cream, but good stuff
• The full name
• Popular place

9-13-17 (Rest of Day 2)

• Next stop was Ford's Theater
• Time to kill at Hard Rock Cafe before the tour began
• Bloody pillow
• In the actual theater
• The infamous spot
• From upstairs now
• A big bust
• Across the street is where Lincoln died
• In this room
• In case there was any doubt
• the headlines
• Tower of books about Lincoln
• The J Edgar Hoover FBI building
• The entrance
• From across the street
• Trump Hotel
• The EPA
• The Internal Revenue Service
• The front of Trump Hotel
• Ronald Reagan Center and International trade  Center
• Department of the Treasury
• From the side
• The White House
• The South Lawn
• Washington Monument
• The White House from a distance
• Getting closer...
• Lincoln Memorial and Reflecting Pool...from a distance
• Next stop was the Holocaust Museum
• What it was like in the gas chamber
• Right next to Washington Monument
• The Capitol
• Bureau of Engraving and Printing
• Thomas Jefferson Memorial
• Up Close
• The statue inside
• Next stop
• Quote to live by
• Little waterfalls
• Statue of Eleanor
• A little good luck rubbing
• So true...
• we went in the opposite direction
• Maybe you've heard this one??
• About the New Deal
• Darn polio
• This should have been first, but it was our last
• Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
• The him side
• DC War Memorial
• Next stop was the WW2 Memorial
• Inside
• No doubt about that
• Washington Monument...getting a little dark
• Lincoln Memorial and the Reflecting Pool
• Tons of flying insects around
• Getting close to Lincoln Memorial
• Washington Monument in the dark
• We made it in
• Got pretty close
• Washington Monument from Lincoln Memorial...and the Reflecting Pool
• The Korean War Memorial
• Lined up

9-7-17 (Wax Museum)

• Donuts to start the day
• Ben Franklin at Madame Toussaud's
• They had all the presidents--John Adams
• Andrew Jackson
• William Henry Harrison
• Ulysses S Grant and Robert E Lee
• And Mark
• Harriet Tubman
• Abe Lincoln
• Teddy Roosevelt
• Taft
• Harry Truman
• MLK
• Malcolm X
• Mark and J Edgar Hoover
• Megan and Rosa Parks
• Fidel Castro
• The Kennedy's
• Richard Nixon
• Jimmy Carter
• the Reagan's
• The Clinton's
• George HW
• George W
• Megan and the Obama's
• Last, but not least...
• Uncle Sam
• Rihanna
• Selena Gomez
• Megan and George Clooney
• Taylor Swift
• Beyonce
• Jennifer Lopez
• Tom Cruise
• Samuel L Jackson
• Justin Beiber
• Miley Cyrus
• Michael Jackson
• Elton John
• Stephen Colbert
• Brad Pitt
• Oprah Winfrey
• Jimmy Fallon
• Larry King
• Sign above the urinal

9-4-17 (DC Day 1 - Arlington National Cemetery)

• At the Iwo Jima Memorial (USMC)
• From the front
• And the side
• In the distance is the Abe Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and Capitol
• The Netherlands Carillon
• 49 bells
• Walking through Arlington Cemetery
• Generals and war heroes got bigger stones
• Abe Lincoln's son
• It is a huge cemetery
• The Kennedy family
• The Memorial Amphitheater
• Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
• The stone
• Changing of the guards
• The trees know when to stop
• the tomb from the other side
• The Coast Guard Memorial
• Discoverer of the North Pole
• 9/11 Memorial
• BBQ dinner at the Pentagon City mall

8-30-17 (Milwaukee)

• The Leaning Tower of Pisa
• It was a lot of walking that day
• Not much of a food line here
• One of the stages\
• Nice and clear for the gondola rides this time
• Kyle and Macie
• Kyle at dinner
• Being silly
• Like son, like mother
• Mother was cold at bingo
• Jenny getting used to the machine
• Dan ready to win

7-11-17

• The party weekend in Michigan
• And more tents
• And a canopy and camper
• Another tent about to be erected
• Behind the shed where the shingles and chimney have been laid to rest
• Kids vs. Adults
• The four wheeler certainly got a workout
• Baxter found the cool spot
• Dennis shooting water rockets
• Lee working on her hole
• Kyle playing his own version of Kan Jam
• Some of the kids in the hole
• Body shots off Phil
• A little train
• Some of the boys
• Waiting in line for the four wheeler
• Macie finally got on
• At the animal hospital while Phil changes the battery
• At the Riverwalk

7-10-17

• Me and Aunt Pam at Hi Infidelity in Orland Hills
• Pretty good sized stage and mostly great sound
• Got a little cold for the ladies
• Nice, clean fire pit again...Thanks, Bob
• Took a lot of time, but the grass is cut
• The other direction
• Like a brand new bedroom
• The main room
• And downstairs

7-6-17 (Cubs Game)

• The view from our seats
• About as far away from the plate as possible
• I was able to get these two
• My company for the night...between meeting up with everyone else
• Nice view from the Jim Beam balcony
• And another one
• Our new seats
• A little zoom
• There wasn't an open seat for everyone where we were
• Cubs win!
• Fly the W
• Little selfie up close after the game
• The other board
• Time to go home

6-21-17 (Las Vegas - Part 2)

• At the Venetian
• The ceiling inside
• Walls and a souvenir shop
• Should have taken a gondola ride
• Group shot
• Trump Tower...nicer in Chicago in my opinion
• Next stop was the Flamingo
• Found the real ones
• Wonder why one leg up?
• Koi and catfish below
• Flamingo fountain
• And the waterfall
• Caesar's Palace
• Inside now
• Ready for the inaudible show
• Back to the outside after some gelato
• Got near Paris, but not inside.
• Fountain show at the Bellagio
• Megan and I had a heated Jenga match
• Down by the condo pool
• MGM Grand
• Mother and Aunt Pam in the stands
• Dad and Megan
• Pre-bowling photo of me and Uncle Joe
• What brought us there
• To downtown Freemont St.
• It sure was an experience
• Freemont Casino
• Classic rock band
• Mother and Dad
• Megan and Aunt Pam
• Megan and Kristin
• Aunt Pam and Uncle Joe
• Me and Megan
• Binion's
• The Golden Nugget
• It's almost time!!
• Megan and Kristin at the Cosmopolitan
• and Mother
• Now it's time!!

6-20-17  (Las Vegas - Part 1)

• Jack in the Box for breakfast
• These were almost as good as BK, best Jack in the Box ones I've ever had though
• Lake Mead on the way to Hoover Dam
• On the way to the start of the tour
• we're here
• Creating some power
• Pretty new bridge over the river
• Looking down...that's where the power generators are
• It was quite a project at the time
• Goes without saying I think
• The intake towers
• Looks like the water has been much higher
• Lake Mead from the official lookout
• And another
• Gwen at Madame Tussaud's in the Venetian
• Robert De Niro
• The Rock
• Sandra Bullock
• Will Smith
• George Clooney and Julia Roberts (with Mother and Megan as well)
• Me, Dad, and Jenna Jamison
• Mother, Megan, and Hugh Heffner
• Nicolas Cage
• Halle Berry
• Leonardo DiCaprio
• Jeff Gordon
• Dale Earhnardt
• Dad in third I guess
• Don King
• Megan and Muhammad Ali
• Joe Montana
• Shaq
• Size 23EEE
• Babe Ruth
• Tiger and Arnold Palmer
• Jerry Springer
• Larry King
• Stevie Wonder
• Katy Perry
• Lady Gaga
• Michael Jackson
• Nicki Minaj
• Snoop Dogg
• Rihanna
• Bruno Mars
• Miley Cyrus
• Tupac Shakur
• Mike Tyson
• Mother and Elvis
• Evel Knievel
• Donny and Marie
• Elvis
• Brittney Spears
• Sigfried and Roy
• Blue Man Group
• The Rat Pack
• Samuel L Jackson
• The Incredible Hulk

6-7-17

• My room in Michigan after being painted
• The drone made it to Effingham
• Getting up there
• Mikey flipping off the dock
• Jerry keeping an eye on the kids
• The kids working together on a sandcastle
• Adding a big stick
• Getting dirty
• Grace and Kyle by the stick
• Kyle loves it
• Macie and Kelci
• Getting a smile out of Owen
• Kyle out like a light on his mama
• Macie dozing on Megan
• Me, Mother, and Dad
• Mother and Jake
• The games have begun
• Britt in her birthday crown
• Mother, Lee, and Pat in a semi circle

5-12-17       

• Kyle at Nate's lightning game in Tinley
• Macie on a bigger one
• Macie, Jenna, and her little man
• Me and Mother camping out
• The name fit!!
• The boys watching the other field
• Macie and her little cousin
• Not sure what they found
• Mother and Sue
• After party by Jenna and Kevin
• Nice group with the beers

5-11-17

• Nate with a ball, and a tree stump for  plenty of entertainment in Michigan
• Wonder what this conversation was about
• Kyle all on his own
• Lot of Saturday landscaping
• Luke reholstering his firearm
• Kyle was so happy
• Duke and Macie
• Macie and Mother on the golf cart
• Hi Infidelity at Bourbon
• Lee and Kerri
• The rest of the bunch
• Lee, Megan, and some of Kerri
• Lee back behind the camera
• Lee and Mother
• Lee and Andy
• The ladies
• Another pose
• Lee, Mother, and Megan
• Me, Lee, and Megan
• Lee and Mother
• Another
• Me and Mother
• Awesome show
• Lee, Beth, and Andy
• We were getting down
• Lotta action here
• Me, Lee, and Megan

4-20-17

• Trying to get Owen to dig into his birthday cake
• Kyle and Logan on Easter
• Macie
• Care and Lucas
• Easter is almost like  Christmas
• Lucas, Kyle, and Macie

4-19-17 (Opening Day)

• Opening Day 2017
• The hotel across Clark is coming along
• The new "park"
• Huge screen and decent sound
• Ready for movie nights there
• Needed a ticket to get in there
• It was a rainy day
• The park from up top in Wrigley
• Turned out to be a 2 hour delay
• Our seats were dry...just cold
• Next problem...
• They evacuated because of the lightning
• Bleachers evacuated too
• Start of the team intros
• The starters
• Almost game time
• Here they come with the trophy
• Rizzo got to hold it

4-7-17

• Me and Amber at Bourbon
• Firehouse BBQ in Richmond, IN on the way to Columbus
• Buckeye Donut in Columbus
• Time for a lesson from Tom Carter
• "Roll the ball here"
• Nationwide Arena in Columbus for Bon Jovi
• Surprise of the day was the Arnold status
• The text
• The Arnold Classic at BBR
• Meat Lover's pizza at Marion's in Beavercreek
• Jimmy ready for the weekend

2-6-17

• Amber ready for Chuck's and Q
• Megan wouldn't miss this fun night
• Amber and Beth at Chuck's
• Looks like Care enjoyed her po boy
• Amber got the camera at Q
• Now with me
• And with Andy
• And now Karen
• Waiting for Clementine's to open at IceBreaker 2017
• Gotta remember this radio station
• The partially frozen Black River
• The view from the Idler
• The actual Idler
• Beth at Joe's
• Beth and Mother
• Karen and me

1-17-17

• No Santa at Bourbon Street this year
• Karen, Megan, and Amber
• They were in the big room this time
• Another one of Guy
• The three front men
• Owen hanging out under the Christmas tree
• 4 of the great grandkids
• Nate and Kyle
• Rough day for Duke
• Family Christmas picture
• Selfie queen
• Another of my seester
• Kyle and Owen
• Next stop for the evening
• Saw the Macy's Christmas tree
• The base
• The tree on Michigan Ave
• Had time to kill, so we got margaritas
• Amber sipping hers
• Almost show time
• Lee wearing her tree skirt as an ugly sweater
• Now as an ugly skirt
• Macie helping with the chocolate
• Spreading it out
• Me and Kyle working on the buckeye balls
• Lee, Mother, and the twins on Christmas Eve
• Lee and Chevy
• Merry Christmas...cutting down this year
• Kyle and his big blow pop
• Dan back in town and at the Delta
• Amber
• Pat on the machines
• Megan and Amber

1-11-17 (Sebastian Maniscalco night)

• Dinner at Emerald Loop before the show
• Here we are at the theatre...early of course
• Lee and Megan across the street
• Group shot
• Selfie version
• Lee and Mother very into the channel 7 news
• Interesting "chandelier" at Mahoney's after
• Got a table right up front
• Megan and Deano
• Me and (blond) Megan
• Megan and a photo bomber
• Show time
• 4/5
• Lee, Megan, and Mother
• Megan, Megan, and Lee
• Lee, Mother, and Deano
• Megan and Deano
• Me and Megan
• Lee, Mother, and Megan
• Megan, and Megan
• Guy on lead
• Dave and Tyler
• Lee and Megan dancing the night away

1-10-17

• Dan ready for some shuffleboard at PD's
• It's time
• Macie loves her jean shorts
• Phil and Nate
• Me and Nate
• Kyle very much into his Nintendo game
• Everyone playing on the electronics
• Macie practicing her gymnastics
• Brought out the tequila we made in Mexico
• Stress-free Thanksgiving
• Kyle looking for the Annoying Orange
• Phil getting ready for the bird
• Lee and the potatoes
• Phil checking the temperature
• Looking good
• Put a good dent in it so far
• Lee and Phil seifie
• Black Friday at Delta
• We see who had the camera
• Heated game of darts
• Me and Amber
• Down to the dego tee
• Brought out the Big Trouble in Little China
• Jimmy
• Now with Megan and Amber

1-8-17 (Mexico - The rest)

• On the way to our outdoor adventure
• Me and Lee ready for ziplining
• Dad was smoking...haha
• Now we're ready to go
• On the trail to our mules
• Nothing to see here
• Nice view
• Here comes Lee
• Close behind...
• And Dad
• I was the first zipliner
• Impeccable form
• What a great view
• Down we go
• Now it's Lee's turn...her first time
• Trying to see everything?
• Dad was having a great time already
• Like a professional
• Off he goes
• Lee rappelling down the waterfall
• Now with the smile
• Looking down
• My turn to come down
• This was definitely a first for me
• Almost to the freezing pool at the bottom
• Here comes Dad
• They tried to get him to smile
• There it is
• Safe and sound at the bottom
• Dad and Lee coming down the first waterslide
• Nice one after re-gathering themselves
• I got to go alone
• I survived the plunge
• The three of us
• Dad and Lee zip lining upside down
• My turn
• Dad and Lee on the platform
• Here I come
• Another cloudy day at the resort
• Lee and her bun ready for dinner
• A little Don Julio first
• Lee and Phil at dinner

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