Weekend o'Independence

Ahh...summer holidays are truly the best! I find that summer days free of work and open to any and all possibilities are rehabilitating and bring out the same feelings experienced during childhood summers off from school.

Rob and I celebrated our weekend of American independence as well as responsibility indenpendence Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We visited Bob and Linda on Friday for a lovely BBQ full of lots of food, drinks and fun dice games. Then Saturday, we woke up bright and early and rushed off to North Avenue beach for a full day of beach volleyball, picnic-ing, and dives into the icy cold waters of Lake Michigan. The weather was absolutely perfect. We could not have asked for a better beach day. Oh, and Rob was also quite the volleyball pro...playing all day long and even taking a volleyball to the face!

Later in the evening, Mania and Sophie came over for a low key BBQ at our home and we took the opportunity again, to enjoy our summer day and sit outside well into the night talking and eating. Perfection.

The rest of the weekend was spent recovering from more than our normal share of fun, sun and activity by hitting up Costco and completely blowing our anticipated budget. Oops! At least we got a meal's worth of samples out of the visit.

Weekends like these really illustrate to Rob and I how lucky we are to live in such a wonderful city and have such wonderful people to celebrate with. Now we just have to wait in anticpation for Labor Day...