The Lakehouse Life

With the weather improving we are beginning to realize that every man and their dog has some connection to a house by a lake...somewhere...somehow. It is here that summer days are spent ~ relaxing, drinking and engaging in a vast array of water sports. 

In the past two weeks we have had the opportunity to sample this lifestyle ~ with trips to Lake Michigan and to a smaller lake further East. We went kayaking - thus enabling Jen to fall in the water (naturally) and me to get sunburnt (naturally)...and then spend a few lazy hours sitting on the pier or walking the beaches as the sun dropped below the horizon. 

In bigger news ~ Jen bought a bike ~ and is learning to ride (without training wheels cause she is so hard). Updates and pictures to come. 

An old friend in Chicago

This past weekend we headed to Chicago to catch up with an old friend...the famous or infamous...Kaz. Kaz was one of my roommates at UCLA; we lived in a small room which somehow accommodated five dashingly handsome intellectuals that year. Kaz was one of those unique characters who you would find half-naked cooking rice at 3am as you return from a bar...or who would hand out shots of sake failing to tell anybody that he had just boiled the liquid. It was great to see him though ~  a night spent catching up, drinking and developing great admiration for any individual who can consume more than one slice of Chicago style pizza.

Pictured: Old and new friends...and finally flowers take the place of snow in South Bend, Indiana.