{"id":113,"date":"2006-07-12T22:50:28","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T02:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swardraws.com\/chatter\/?p=113"},"modified":"2006-07-12T22:50:28","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T02:50:28","slug":"the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/2006\/07\/the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sherry and Andrea came up by 9:30 so we could catch the 10:51 train to Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>We took the free trolley to Navy Pier and had lunch. Not a good idea to eat at a sit down restraurant at Navy Pier, over priced and the 18% tip is forced on you. When all was said and done I think I ended up giving him an additional $5 for a tip, sheesh.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah as begging for everything and I was being a stick in the mud aunt. I eventually let her and Emma go into the fun house. Sherry and Andrea went with and me and Hollace stayed behind. She didn&#8217;t want to go.<\/p>\n<p>After Navy Pier I tried to lead them to a walk to Milliunum Park but it started remind me of the time I took the whole clan racing back to Union Station from the pier. I don&#8217;t know where the hell we were going. I didn&#8217;t realize that Milliunum Park was close to Art Institute which is too far from Navy Pier. Well maybe not that far but I didn&#8217;t gear anyone up for the trek we took.<\/p>\n<p>The kids ran around and got wet at the Park. I remained the stick in the mud and just watched. I started to get overheated in the direct sun and eventually had to find a shady spot.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea asks me where we were going next and I told her back to the train station. She instantly got bummed. She was hoping for some shopping.<\/p>\n<p>We head out to a trolley spot and wait and wait and wait. I thought I gave us enought time to make our 6:35 train but that darn trolley just wouldn&#8217;t come around. It finally got here at 6:35 so that gave us time to eat at Union Station while we wait for the 8:35 train.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone was beat becasue the next day I was the first to arise at 10am, then the 7 year olds at 10:10. Around 10:45 Sarah comes in from the camper where she, Sherry and Andrea were sleeping. Sherry comes in at 11 and Andrea shortly after still half asleep.<\/p>\n<p>Now we wait for Cindy and family to come and pick up the girls. Her transmission problems only cost her $130 and that includes towing. I guess the pan was loose.<\/p>\n<p>They come, stay for a short bit then try to leave. They almost forget Mac ;-). He was busy playing in Hollace&#8217;s room and didn&#8217;t want to go.<\/p>\n<p>After they leave, Sherry, Andrea, Hollace and I head for the mall so Andrea can get some shopping done. I bought a new purse. Eventually me and Hollace leave since it doesn&#8217;t look Andrea was going to finish up for awhile. We brought separate cars so they just get on the tollway from there.<\/p>\n<p>On the drive home I hear from Paula, she bought a house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherry and Andrea came up by 9:30 so we could catch the 10:51 train to Chicago. We took the free trolley to Navy Pier and had lunch. Not a good idea to eat at a sit down restraurant at Navy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/2006\/07\/the-weekend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}