Alffe, that is. She's nice to know. That's what it says under her picture in her year book and Mr. Alffe said, yup, she sure IS nice to know. LOL

We had fun. I had a wonderful time. Alffe's home makes you feel so safe and comfortable and she is the hostest with the mostest.

Things got screwed up in Chicago and we didn't have time to connect with Kathy. Hopefully Alffe will be able to meet her sometime in the Chicago area. We ended up getting stalked by Mr. Alffe and he joined us for a luch at Billygoats.

LOLOL! Billygoats, I never knew. Cheeseborger, cheesborger, cheeseborger! CHEEPS! NO FRIES! I told Alffe about how John Belushi and former cast of Saturday Night Live used to to comedy skits about the famous Billygoats. And I TOLD her when you go to this place, they actually do say those things. So what did Alffe do? She did order a cheeseburger and then she told the guy she wanted fries! He immediately said, CHEEPS!!! (chips) NO FRIES!!! I'm still rofl about that one.

I shopped too much and must go out on the street corners now and panhandle, but my treats to myself I just adore. I had my first Crate and Barrel experience, and omg, what a store!!!! I want one of everything.

Walked through a few high end stores and just rolled our eyes at the $485 shoes!!!! Alffe found a lovely pair of black patent leather shoes for their New York trip and I got a very nice 'namebrand' purse at a discount to die for.

And then there's Shipshewana. YUM, the food we got there!!! Oh my.

Well we just had fun.

My visit with Kathy was awesome. She is so pleasant and polite and wonderful to talk to and EVEN invited me into her lovely home and no it didn't fall on my head! LOL Her nice hubby fixed us great fruit plates to brunch on while we chatted. I got to see pictures of her lovely family and even got to meet her neighbors. Just wonderful people.

Thank you (((Kathy))) for the pleasure of your company. It completed my trip.

Glad to be back. Love you all.

I already miss Mr. and Mrs. Alffe. Our last evening together we...well...we had a few drinks and were up laughing our butts off until after midnight!

I got sweet pictures of Mr. Cooper and will post one when I have time.

Thank you Kathy and Alffe for a wonderful time!!! Much too short.

It sounds as if you've had a wonderful time away visiting with the Alffe family and also with Kathy. Thanks so much for sharing, Doody. Made my day.

On our way to Amish country to shop and EAT.



Me, IN Lake Michigan. Swear I was meant to be a water baby rather than a bullheaded Taurus.



My buddy at Lake Michigan.



The purely sandy beach at Lake Michigan is just beautiful! Nothing but really fine sand. The kind you want to wiggle your feet and toes in. I love how you can see the curve of our planet.



The Tower sand dune at Lake Michigan. If you look realllllyyyyy close you can see people at the top getting ready to run down the hill. And one person toward the middle on the right. Gives you a perspective of how huge this sand dune is!



I know Alffe wouldn't want her picture on the internet so I'm standing with a ghost, LOL! The famous Billy Goat tavern portrayed on Saturday Night Live. Mr. Alffe took our picture. A lady was getting ready to walk by and she stopped while he took the picture. Then she asked if he would like her to take a picture of the 3 of us and his reply was... "I don't know these people." LOLOL!!!!

How did I forget the Millenium Park pictures.

This thing is amazing. It shows digitalized pictures of just ordinary people. They blink and smile and blink and smile and then their mouths form an O and that's when you know the water is going to come flying out of their mouth. I wanted to stand under that spout so badly but I would have been walking around like a wet noodle!

It's called the The Crown Fountain.





This is called the Cloud Gate. It's awesome. I took a picture of myself in it, lol.

Crikies. Somehow I blocked all the images. But have to run and will try to fix it later, LOL! HALP!

doody, the pictures are there. i can see them

before you log on again. clear your cookies. run disk clean up. i'll pm you.

Thank you for the photos.... what fun

You got some really good pictures! Thank you from the ghost!

Have I got a train ride for you Doody.

http://www.railsnw.com/Tours/royalsc...alscotsman.htm

Oh my lord, I want to go on THOSE trains! LOL! That would be fun.

Ahhhh, now I can see them curious doody. Don't know what I did. But then, I am checking from my son-in-law's computer. Hopefully I'll be able to see them there.

And you're all welcome.