After Dinner

After dinner, the consensus was that ice cream was in order...

It was a little chilly outside, so Alex borrowed Aunt Julia's jacket. Doesn't he look stylish?

Look what Tom is doing :-)

A tile, who would have guessed? They are all over the place !

We went back to the gelato place next to the Mexican restaurant. Nick enjoys his ice cream, and Tom bonds with his CrackBerry.

The harbor, and the beach, are much more quiet in the evening... the end to a fun day.

Dinner at Armstrong's

We had dinner at Armstrong's, a seafood restaurant, the second night.
Looks like Chuck likes margaritas even more than Tom does.

All the happy margarita drinkers.

Waiting for our dinner -- nice table on the deck, overlooking the harbor. Dinner was pretty good, seafood as you might expect. The clam chowder was especially good.

You can tell that this picture was taken from a much greater height than the previous picture :-)

Down the Hill

Done with the gardens, and time to go back down the hill. The shuttle only ran every hour or so, and we weren't really sure when. It was only about a mile down, so some of us decided to walk.


Some of us didn't.


However, they were shamed into it, and off we went....


Uncle and nephew walking down the hill....

In a close-up, you can see that they apparently like the same music...

Apparently it was white-shirt day, and maybe even goofy-hat day.

You can see here how close the fire got. To the fire station.

And guess what. Another tile encountered !

More Gardens

After our arduous climb up the stairs to the Memorial, a rest was necessary.

Grandmother Gene feeding (ok, watering) her little flock...

Dad Bird steps in to help....

Back down to the entrance, through the cactus.

Dutifully reading about the history of the gardens.

And look, a tile !

At the Wrigley Memorial

Some of us climbed up to the actual memorial building.... as you will see later, some of us did not :-)

Unsurprisingly, it was a building with lots of tile.

The view from the top was pretty nice.

This picture, in case it isn't obvious, is of the ceiling of the arch, taken by lying on the ground. Guess what? more tile !

Remember the part about how some of us (ok, one of us) didn't climb up to the memorial....

Very important disclaimer about the marble we saw.

Sitting in the shade....

Who is the Indian god with all the arms? Is it Shiva?

Oh, no, it is just Nick and Alex.

Even more tiles.

And finally, Nick, looking cool.

Jeff wants to take a photo,,,

Here comes the whole clan, walking up the path towards the actual memorial...

It's a pretty view.

Jeff decides he wants to take a photo of everyone.

Hey, stop, everyone, turn around!

Hey, that means all of you. Stop !

So hurry up and take the picture already....

Jeff -- if you read this, we should put the picture you took up here too!

At the Wrigley Memorial Gardens

There were lots and lots of different kinds of cactus in the gardens.

Some of them looked a lot like a pineapple.

Some of them were just weird.

Some of them looked even more like a pineapple....

Some of them were a bit Cthulhu-like (look it up).

But there was a lot of beauty there.

I see Mickey Mouse !

Chuck takes a break ....


While the boys carefully inspect the cactus.