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My sisters were in town this weekend. I picked Cathy up at Midway after work on Wednesday, and Stacey drove in on Thursday, arriving just about an hour before I got home. She brought scads of vegetables from her garden - zucchini, tomatoes, eggplant and bell peppers - so Cathy made us gazpacho for dinner ( Read more... )

We went downtown on Sunday and did a bit of shopping, as Stacey wanted to go to The Body Shop and Cathy wanted to get some snow boots. She's planning to leave them here for when she visits, as she obviously doesn't have a great need for them in San Francisco! We then went to the Cultural Center for the Sixth Annual Chicago Taiko Legacy program, ( Read more... )

Stacey arrived on Thursday, about the middle of the afternoon. I had assembled the vegetarian lasagna earlier in the day and, as we were both hungry, I put it in the oven as soon as she got in. That and a salad, with chocolate mousse (courtesy of Trader Joe's) made a nice dinner ( Read more... )

I basically lazed about all day Saturday, other than the usual errands.

Today, however, I went out and enjoyed the day. I had decided to go see Visconti's Senso (I enjoyed it, though it's molto soap-opera-ish!) at the Siskel Film Center, and left the house early so that I could do other stuff downtown. I picked up a ticket for the Cultural ( Read more... )

Went to the opera last night, Verdi's Falstaff, which I enjoyed very much, not least because I saw the second and third acts from a much better seat than usual! At the first intermission, Jim said that the couple who usually sit next to them weren't there, so why didn't I move up? Sounded good to me! Their seats are in the first section on the ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I went to the Cultural Center again, this time for a concert by the Baroque Band, one of Chicago's newest early music ensembles. The music was Vivaldi, Purcell, Bach, Corelli, Telemann and Pachelbel (yes, that one, you'd think he never wrote anything else!). Before the concert, I went to Millennium Park to check out the Museum of ( Read more... )