Fall Air

An amazing lightning storm hit the city last night and were glad to be in our warm home. The rain let up this morning but the wind is still swirling fearlessly outside. Fall is in the air!

The leaves are beginning to change color! I love this time of year, it brings along special memories of a perfect Montana fall day. Tomorrow is our second anniversary, and what an amazing two years we've had.

I couldn't have dreamt it better.

So, in honor of that, we headed to West Michigan for a little R&R.

We were searching for sand and sun.

Found sand.

but not a lot of sun to go with it.

We loved our time on the other side of the lake and would go back again in a heartbeat.

White Sox

On Monday night the Sox sell halfprice tickets, so we went out to watch them play the Twins. It was a poor showing on the White Sox part, but Kee Won stays loyal to MN and was happy for the win.

Catching Up...

Holly flew down from Minneapolis to spend Labor day weekend in the city with us. We toured all the usual sights, but saved the parks for dark...super cool...

On Sunday Kee Won had us over for a rooftop barbecue.

Korean barbecue is hard to beat..but the view of the skyline isn't half bad either.

After lunch we headed down to the Buckingham fountain which is one of my favorite places to be.

Jason and Holly got to go see the Obama's Chicago home. The entire block surrounding the home is barricaded and surveyed by CPD, but they do allow you to take photos. I'm going to have to get down there the check it our before we leave.

Football

A few weeks ago we came across some tickets to the Bears last pre-season game. Neither of us had been to Soldier Field and we couldn't resist the opportunity.

It was a gorgeous evening for football. This is a view of downtown from the stadium.

Our seats were ridiculously high!

It was an awesome game, but the jury is still out on whether or not this is the year to become a Bears fan.....

WA to IL

The last of our travel photos!....for now....

We spent a few days in Waterville and Dad drove up to say hi! Josh got him hooked on a new toy...

On our way through MT we stopped off in Billings to visit the Duttons. Unfortunately time was short and we only got to see a few of them...but we'll be back.

Wyoming..I think they have the coolest state sign.

In S. Dakota we detoured to the Badlands. It was freezing and pouring down rain...definately not what we expected. However, the landscape is very impressive.

We made it home just in time to attend the Jensen wedding in Milwaukee...and what a beautiful wedding it was.

Southbound on the AK Highway

Still trying to get caught up on all our travel pictures.....

our last ferry ride from Juneau to Skagway

We arrived in Skagway around midnight and parked the trailer at Neitzers.

We spent the next day touring Skagway and waiting for mom's passport. It had arrived in Juneau that morning, and the owner of our campground put it on a float plane up to Skagway for us. It did arrive safely and made our boarder crossings much more enjoyable than they could have been!

leaving AK.... (even though the sign says Welcome to Alaska)

It was raining in the Carcross Desert....thought that wasn't supposed to happen...

...our breakdown.

Around 10 o'clock at night we realized we had broken a leafspring on the trailer and blew our rear tire. We were able to nurse it along for a couple miles until we found a spot to pull off for the night.

Beth and Jason did an awesome job jacking the trailer up and stabilizing it so we could sleep safely.

The next morning we drove to a roadhouse and found a self declared "mechanic" who came out to help Jason. Mom and I picked wild strawberries while the boys worked.

A day later we were finally back on the road. This is Folded Mountain

and we saw more cariboo

There were quite a few large wildfires burning in the yukon, so they wouldn't allow any roadside stopping. These signs were all along the road.

We stopped in Watson Lake and mom found a sign for the town where dad is working.

...and the Yukon sign. Jason wasn't too fond of our idea to do the can-can.