Illinois July 3-4

We arrived in Chicago to visit 'Chung's cousin and his wife Kari (whose wedding we went to last month). We hadn't had much chance at the wedding to get to know Kari, but saw enough of her through the wedding that we were really looking forward to getting to know her better.

We throroughly enjoyed our time with them. They have a sweet dog who mostly kept her distance from Brembo, but once they got to swim and fetch a little together, she seemed more comfortable around our monster-sized puppy.



We spent a fabulous Fourth of July with Kari's family at their lake house just across the border in Wisconsin, and got to enjoy a spectacular fireworks show from all of the various neighbors in on the lake.


Charlie, a puggle, was also there for the afternoon. He didn't enjoy swimming quite as much as Brembo did, but he did get into the water a bit. It was quite a feat to get him to sit still long enough to snap this shot, Blau and Brembo sat pretty well for about 5 min. while we tried to get Charlie in position for 10 secs.




'Chung got some fun night pics. there (all of the following, as well as the first pic. above of Ray and Kari, were taken using a long exposure after it was completely dark out).



Brembo did well with the noise of the fireworks, and 'Chung got eaten alive by mosquitoes. Good times.



We headed out that night after the fireworks were done and drove towards Baltimore where my sisters, mom, Eric and Audrey were celebrating Audrey's second birthday. We arrived late the following night, ready to kick off a very busy week on the east coast.