Psychedaisy: Chicago

Thanksgiving in Chicago

...with Amy and Jamison. Here is their apartment building in Hyde Park:

Here is Kimbark Street:

and here is Amy at her job:

We bought grandkids' Christmas presents there, for 20% off. Her coworkers call her "Noorlander!" and she was worried about me taking her picture because they will tease her. She likes the job.

We ended up having Thanksgiving dinner--with Betsy, Brett, & Ethan and Jackie, Joel, & Blythe--at A&J's friends' larger apartment a few blocks away. We were so busy that day I didn't take any photos. Amy made cider-brined turkey, homemade dressing, gravy, walnut cranberry spinach salad, pumpkin pies, key lime pie, chocolate pecan pie, and cheesecake. John made the candied yams and mashed potatoes, and did a lot of the clean up. I made the mushrooms and green beans with shallots, and the dinner rolls, and Jackie brought cheese roll and crackers and veggies with dip. I think she did great coordinating a major dinner for nine (not counting the two babies) in two apartments several blocks apart. Yeay Amy!

Hyde Park

We took a walk with Amy to the U Chicago campus, and stopped to look at the Roby House (Frank Lloyd Wright, above), and the Oriental Museum (below):

The weather was rainy and cool or sunny and cool. The leaves had mostly fallen and made a golden, red, and brown carpet over the pavement. The streets and houses are lovely and even the apartment buildings are tolerable. Short blocks, quiet streets. A & J live half a block from a little shopping center, two blocks from church, five or six blocks from Amy's job, maybe four blocks from the nearest train station and bus line. I don't know how it is in the deep of winter, but late autumn is very nice.