The Beach

Spencer and I went for a bike ride today, here are some pictures we took on our ride.

Lighthouse Beach

There are several beaches just a couple of blocks away from our apartment. This beach is right next to a famous lighthouse shown below.

The lighthouse is right next to the Evanston art museum and a pretty garden trail.

Coastal View
This is a picture taken just northeast of campus shooting south towards Chicago. You can see downtown Chicago in the middle and the little inlet on the right is Northwestern's running/biking trail where the below pictures are taken from.

Pictures from Northwestern's Running/Biking Trail
of Downtown Chicago

Downtown Chicago

We took a trip on the train to downtown Chicago yesterday. Here are some pictures we took!

Millennium ParkThis was really weird to see. Apparently they had people from the city volunteer to get videos of their faces taken and then the city puts the images onto this big building and there is a second one across the way from it. They'll just sit there and look at you and blink, and then they start spitting watter out of their mouths. After they are done "spewing" their mouth closes and then tons of water falls down the sides from the top. Tons of little kids and adults run around in the middle getting all wet and cooling down. It was quite the spectacle!
There was this big kidney shaped bean that reflects you in all sorts of weird ways. The two pictures below show it from underneath. It does a weird reflect you forever kind of thing.


Grant Park


Navy Pier

Our Apartment: Moving In

Dixie mentioned it might be fun to take before and after pictures of our apartment to feel better about the progress we are making while unpacking. Here are some pictures of our box-filled apartment. Pictures of a pristine and organized apartment still to come :).

Floor Plan

Here is the floor plan for our apartment, maybe this will help you make sense of the rest of the pictures.

Entry Hall

This is what you see when you first walk into the apartment (if you turn a little bit to the right). The room that you can see through the doorway is the living room. If you were to turn to your left you would see a small wall closet and then the bedroom and bathroom (shown below).

Our Lovely Bathroom

All of the pipes exploded in our building right before we moved in so they had to tear out the walls in the bathroom and have been in the process of adding the tile back right above the tub. The tile man was at our apartment all day today and we're not sure if he's coming back tomorrow. The pictures below show how in shambles our bathroom has been. Having limited access to our bathroom has made moving in quite the adventure.

Bathroom minus sink, tile and shower faucets.

The Bedroom

This is a picture of our bedroom from the entry hall. The one below is taken from the top left corner of the picture above.

The Living Room

This is a picture of the living room as you walk in from the entry hall. The picture below is taken from where the fan is in this picture.

You can see the door way into the kitchen on the right and the doorway back into the entry hall on the left.

The Dining/Utility Room

This is our dining room taken from the entry way of the living room. You can see the door leading into the kitchen on the far wall. The picture below is taken from the top left corner of this picture.

The Kitchen

This is the kitchen coming from the dining room. Below is a picture taken from the other side of the kitchen, which you can't see in this picture because it is shaped like an L and is on the left. Sorry the picture below isn't the best for being able to tell whats going on (there were too many boxes in the way to get a good shot). Basically along the left there is a dishwasher, a sink, and then the gas stove that you can see. Behind me is a door out to an alleyway.

My Birthday Flowers!

My mom sent me flowers for my birthday that were a great housewarming present and a pleasant surprise!

We've Made It!

Our Road Trip

We haven't had a chance to take any pictures of our apartment , and we don't have internet yet. So I'm throwing a few pictures from our road trip on here at an internet cafe.

Happy Husband

Spencer drove the whole way and was in a surprisingly good mood!

Gigantic Truck

The Rental truck was huge with our car attached, luckily we didn't run into anything.

Life Saver

My cousin Jessica gave us a GPS for graduation. It was our best friend on this trip, we didn't even have a map! We used it for food, hotels, directions and anything else we needed!

Trip Adventures: Floods

During our trip there were massive floods and tornadoes occurring just ahead of us. This is a picture from the freeway we were driving on. The flood waters were a little too close for comfort. If you look closely you can tell that this is an entire baseball complex several feet underwater!

Road Trip Scenery

Our trip had lots of farms and livestock. Here is a picture of a nice red tractor.