Last weekend, I went to Miami to celebrate Katy's bachelorette party. It was 40 degrees warmer than was in Chicago.
It's a high of 47 degrees today and there's a windchill that makes it feel like the upper 30s. Katy's getting married in two weeks, on November 17th! We all arrived by Friday night, flying in from Boston, Chicago, and Baltimore. We stayed in a cute boutique hotel in Surfside, outside of Miami.
It had a little kitchen that we made all our meals in.
Saturday night, we had a mardi gras theme dinner and costumes! We ate King's Cake
and dressed in green, yellow or purple with lots of mardi gras beads!
We went into Miami to a hip-hop dance club, called Buck 15. We heard awesome 80s and 90s music, including the Ghostbusters theme song,
but the best part was our celebrity sighting! Shaquille O' Neal came to the club while were there! Katy gave him beads and I gave his girl friend some beads too. My beads, however, were incredibly tangled and when I tried to give a few to Shaq's friend, they all clumped together. So, Shaq, his girl friend and I spent 5 minutes untangling them together!!! When he finally separated them all, Shaq put them back over my head! I couldn't believe how nice he was, to help me with them all. I was going to give them all to him!
We didn't get photos with him, but you can see his silhouette in the background here.
With the exception of Heather, who caught a 6am flight, we woke up leisurely on Sunday to check out of our cute hotel.
Fan and I got Serendipity frozen yogurt and saw Dexter's house on the way to the airport!
It was a wonderful warm weekend but I'm really looking forward to Katy's wedding. I helped her with place cards this weekend and went with her to pick up her wedding dress! I just picked up my eggplant Amsale bridesmaid dress and I'm so excited to dance in it!
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Mr. F and I got brunch in Lincoln Park and then walked through the zoo 
to see the baby zebra! The little boy was born this summer on August 23rd.
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which is Swahili for "jewel". 
The mama zebra's name is Adia and the dad zebra's name is Clayton.
We had so much fun watching it run around the pen.
Kito was so cute with brown and white stripes. 
He even had a fuzzy mohawk along his spine!
Kito reminded me of 
our baby horse, Zoe, so gangly and uncoordinated. He was all legs.
When we walked by the warthogs, 
Mr. F proudly annouced this was a poop colored Pumba. The child next to him, instantly, goes, "Daddy, daddy, it's a poop Pumba." Now he knows that children repeat everything you say, whether you mean it our not!
Surprisingly, Sunday was warm at nearly 70 degrees! 
It was super blustery too.
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We walked from River North to the Art Institute of Chicago last Saturday. Of course, we took pictures with the Bean when we walked by it!
Mom-o wanted to see the Chagall windows. They were a brilliant blue!
We also went through many Impressionist galleries. We saw "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", 
Renoir's "Acrobats",
trapeze artists and ballerinas,
and horses at Longchamp.
I was surprised how many paintings that I actually recognized!
We had a lot of fun with Mr. F's parents last weekend 
and we'll see them again soon, for Thanksgiving in St. Louis. 
It's a high of 47 degrees today and there's a windchill that makes it feel like the upper 30s. Katy's getting married in two weeks, on November 17th! We all arrived by Friday night, flying in from Boston, Chicago, and Baltimore. We stayed in a cute boutique hotel in Surfside, outside of Miami.
It had a little kitchen that we made all our meals in. 
Saturday night, we had a mardi gras theme dinner and costumes! We ate King's Cake 
and dressed in green, yellow or purple with lots of mardi gras beads! 
We went into Miami to a hip-hop dance club, called Buck 15. We heard awesome 80s and 90s music, including the Ghostbusters theme song, 
but the best part was our celebrity sighting! Shaquille O' Neal came to the club while were there! Katy gave him beads and I gave his girl friend some beads too. My beads, however, were incredibly tangled and when I tried to give a few to Shaq's friend, they all clumped together. So, Shaq, his girl friend and I spent 5 minutes untangling them together!!! When he finally separated them all, Shaq put them back over my head! I couldn't believe how nice he was, to help me with them all. I was going to give them all to him! 
We didn't get photos with him, but you can see his silhouette in the background here. 
Fan and I got Serendipity frozen yogurt and saw Dexter's house on the way to the airport!
It was a wonderful warm weekend but I'm really looking forward to Katy's wedding. I helped her with place cards this weekend and went with her to pick up her wedding dress! I just picked up my eggplant Amsale bridesmaid dress and I'm so excited to dance in it! 
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