Those who joined us for that most beautiful weekend in Chicago started off with a Saturday morning trip to downtown Chicago.  Pat and Mary dressed the part and enjoyed making their voices know.  Meanwhile, Roseanne, Mary Jo, Julie, Ed and I went into downtown Hinsdale to do some errands and walk around.  We found an outdoor HOT DOG joint and sat and visited in the great day.
    Sat afternoon Kathe, Alicia, Brett, Norb and Layla came by for our deck party.  I will put some pics on here but others did take some much better shots.  But for now, I will add some and then take some down time to walk outside today

   Sunday, Mary Jo and Pat hosted all of us and we got to see Jan and Tom and Phil Fleege and his lovely wife Deb and their children for an outdoor BBQ with Pat's delicious burgers and brats.  Again, we were so blessed with fine food and weather.  We got to Skype with Mike Lennon and that was a nice fun addition to our afternoon.

 Monday, Tom  Jan  Mary  Ed Julie Kathe Pat and Mary Jo all joined up in La Grange to tour my new office and have a lovely noon lunch at the Palmer Place.  No beers for me  though as I had to work but we did love the food there as well

 Monday eve Kathe and Julie came to my office to have a massage and Mary and Ed left to visit Phil and Deb for a few days.  Julie just left this morning to return to Clinton.  She was teary eyed as she so loved being all a part of this!  You guys, it was great  I crashed into bed myself after a long bath last night but I look back and saw it was all worth the effort in seeing you all!  We send our love to Ed and Linda, Fred and Beth and Jo and Bob as well even though they could not be with us...we thought you would enjoy some pics!!  Love for now P