1st anniversary!

For our first anniversary, Michelle and I took a trip up to Woodstock New Hampshire to enjoy a weekend out of the city. We stayed at an amazing inn and brewpub in a cute little town. We also enjoyed an encore of our amazing wedding cake, as per the photo next to this post :)

Then we went zip lining! It was amazing!

Except for this last one... I (Chris) seem a bit concerned...

4th of July

Celebrated the 4th by watching the Boston Pop's play on the Esplanade along the Charles river.

At the end of the 1812 overture they set off a bunch of fireworks from the barges where the main fireworks come off of, but they were behind trees, and we couldn't see them, so we walked over to the bridge between Boston and Cambridge to watch the show.

Apparently they are a big draw, as people on the trains wanted to watch too.. :)

Happy 4th!

Making Wunder 25 (the last one...)

On last Wunder, though it has more to do with us moving to boston...

Scooper Bowl!

Last night Michelle and I took part in a pretty sweet fundraiser... Wow, no pun intended, but it was an ice cream all you can eat at Government Center (ie city hall courtyard)

It was great, you pay 7$ to enter, and then eat all the ice cream you could.

Or at least it seemed great at the time... a little bit later we felt a bit ill, but that soon passed.

Definitely love a town that raises funds for cancer like that :D

Brewfest!

Yesterday I went to a huge brewfest with Heather and Bill. It was amazing! :)

It cost 45$ to get in, but then you could sample all the beer you wanted. There were over 500 different ones! I don't think we made it past 40 (they are 2 oz samples...)

Michelle sadly couldn't make it, because she is at her graduation back in Oregon. Exciting times!

New House! (But not ours)

Sorry for the long pause in posts, but we've been lacking in our Internet access. However, things are finally getting worked out, and I can finish things up.

Anyhow, after Chicago, we arrived in Connecticut. My sister Heather, Bill, and our niece Violet are also currently settling into a new place.

Violet was thrilled to see our kitty Roarie again, and they seemed to get along well...

But then Roarie decided she had to use the litter box...

She decided she had to use the litter box for the next 30 min...

Anyhow, from there we were off to Boston, and our new home...

Chicago

For our first day in Chicago, Michelle, Stephen and I took a train ride into town to visit the Museum of Science of Industry. (We were staying with my cousin Loretta in an amazingly large house. Roarie really liked that one)...

Anyhow, the museum is amazing. We all took turns in a human hamster wheel...

And saw our veins... I should print this one out for future reference.

We played with electricity

And fire...

And saw what is likely the worlds largest train set. (complete with representations of Seattle and Chicago)...

And the Captured U-boat from WWII

Lastly, we toured the downtown area.

The next day we did all the family stuff... Church with Loretta, then Dinner at Mark and Carla's house with Mike, Aunt Darline, Allison and Charles. We had some awesome Italian beef sandwiches... thanks guys!!

Drive to Chicago

Today we left on our drive to Chicago. We started out with a fantastic breakfast at a really cool diner type place...

On the way out of town, Stephen showed us the sites around both Minneapolis, and St Paul. This included a really cool Church...

... And a view of the city from one of the over 10,000 lakes in the state :)

Also, it turns out every police car has the same unoriginal license plate number: POLICE

Then we took the drive down towards Chicago. On the way we picked up some cheese, (since we were in Wisconsin)

And we also ran into someone else from Oregon... something about license plates today...

Anyhow, so we arrived in Chicago after a 7.5 hour drive!

More to come :)

North Platte

As I mentioned before, we made a quick stop in Nebraska. Michelle's Great x3 Grandpa built a home in the North Platte area back in 1869. (here is a write up outside of the house).

The house is now part of the Lincoln Country Pioneer Museum.

It was really neat to be able to see something that Michelle's family built such a long time ago, still around today.

There were all sorts of neat things inside, and they were fun to photograph.

The museum is actually closed until May, but they let us in, since Michelle is family and all :)

So yeah, a good trip and a good visit. I kind of took a lot of photos...