There are pictures of yesterday's festivities. Unfortunately the cord that connects my camera to the laptop is in Binky's room. It is only 8 am. Any attempt to wake her now would have disastrous results.

After getting the Binky out of the house by 12:30, we went to Navy Pier for some good times. As we're waiting online to ride the giganticist ferris wheel she's ever seen, she asks me, "but when are we going to go site seeing?" We shopped around for a while, went in the ultra lame "Fun Maze," and had hoped to take a ride on the speed boats. The boats were out of commission though, so we shopped more. Anyhow, the weather was perfect and it was a great day to be outside. I thought walking the length of the pier might be fun, but since walking is "lame" and renting bikes (they have those cute little tandem ones!) is "gay," there was none of that.

The highlight of the day was seeing the new Harry Potter movie in the IMax theater. She was in heaven, and I enjoyed the parts I understood. I guess not watching the prior movies and not reading the books puts me at a disadvantage.

When the movie was over, we went off to the mall, checked out Nordstroms, and then met GeeZee for pizza. We ordered a medium pan pizza with extra cheese (her choice.) I ate a piece and 1/2, GeeZee ate about 1/4 of one piece, and she ate the rest. Then when we got home, she was looking for something else to nibble on. I suspect a growth spurt.

Before we went to bed, she asked me if we could visit Northwestern in Evanston, the Lincoln Park Zoo and the Sears Tower tomorrow, after the Cub's game. For those of you who don't know the area, the answer to that question should be, "no." But I think we're going to try to get Nortwestern in before the game if we can leave in about an hour. If we get that done, she just has to pick between the zoo and the big building, and that should be an action-packed day.

We'll see. It is 8:45 and I'm off to get dressed. If we can be out of the house by 10, she has a shot at Northwestern.