As you may know we made it to Chicago yesterday afternoon and because I was dragging, I didn't do any writing last night, so make believe that you got yesterday's news paper today or another way to look at it is that you subscribe to - The Miami Herald!
Before we got to Chicago and Susanna and Tom's family and home, we stopped in South Bend, Indiana and Notre Dame University. Really was impressive even in the cold and rainy weather. I am guessing that the regular classes had already ended for the Spring semester since there was a lot of construction going on and very few students - also most of the tee-shirts at the book store were heavily discounted. Some other comments about the book store, books are expensive, huh? The titles certainly reflect the academic beauty of a university. If the topic which the test book generally undertook as assume "A100", what ever that could be, the books according to their author's comments and title and sub-titles and chapter headings and cover notes on the dust jackets deals with the limitless divisions of "A100" and the prior, present and future implications and cultural influence on the society as it was, has been and will be until next year when the author and interestingly the class' professor of the particular course will write a follow-up version of the text so that the incoming student who must take this course to graduate will now have to buy a new test and the kids with last years version are left with a limited function of a doorstop or a consumer of space in a land fill. Colleges seem to have gotten allot more concerned with the gathering, testing and dispersing knowledge. I guess the collegiate aims of Beer, Buds, Girls and draft deferments have fallen to a lower priority then it was for one of us in this conversation. 
Lynn and I walked the ND campus and no joke we must have walked for 5 miles - at least that's my opinion. Much of the building, although stately, look ed very new. Everything was orderly and spotless. We went to find the stadium,- the Home of the Fighting Irish, but there appeared to be no fight in them, it was inactive or we must have frightened them since we were Noles and they haven't done so well against us in some of their recent events! Anyhow we walked and walked, and at one point I thought that Lynn was looking for a Catholic priest to give me the last rites since I was breathing hard and trailing farther behind with no possible hope of catching up. Of course we saw a lot of the campus and it was impressive. There is the mosaic which is commonly referred to as "Touch-down Jesus" which is on the outside of their library and faces the football stadium.
Lynn and I walked the ND campus and no joke we must have walked for 5 miles - at least that's my opinion. Much of the building, although stately, look ed very new. Everything was orderly and spotless. We went to find the stadium,- the Home of the Fighting Irish, but there appeared to be no fight in them, it was inactive or we must have frightened them since we were Noles and they haven't done so well against us in some of their recent events! Anyhow we walked and walked, and at one point I thought that Lynn was looking for a Catholic priest to give me the last rites since I was breathing hard and trailing farther behind with no possible hope of catching up. Of course we saw a lot of the campus and it was impressive. There is the mosaic which is commonly referred to as "Touch-down Jesus" which is on the outside of their library and faces the football stadium.
Well that was it for Notre Dame, we have some more pictures but I'm not to good at combining photos and the blog
So we went off to Chicago and visited with our grand children. Today, we were able to go with Keenan to a local city kid's park filled with young kids, infants and their nannies. Tonight for dinner, Lynn and our son,Tom made dinner.We are having black beans, rice and churasco - I'm telling you I have been morphed in to a traveling but true Florida Cubanaso!
So we went off to Chicago and visited with our grand children. Today, we were able to go with Keenan to a local city kid's park filled with young kids, infants and their nannies. Tonight for dinner, Lynn and our son,Tom made dinner.We are having black beans, rice and churasco - I'm telling you I have been morphed in to a traveling but true Florida Cubanaso!
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