We’re off on our yearly big adventure to see Bubby Sue, Grampa Jeff, Mim, Popo, Gigi, Uncle Bruce, and Uncle John!

We’ve been in Chicago for the first part of our trip for a few days now, and we’ll be leaving in a couple days to head over to the other side of the lake to play on the beach for a few days.

The other night we all headed down to Millenium Park in downtown Chicago and Bubby Sue and Grampa Jeff led us to a super gigantic, interactive, giant tower, fountain, huge face, crazy water light show thingy. Very hard to describe what this thing is, but it was amazing, and huge, and beautiful. And because it involved water, there was NO way we could keep him out of it.

There are two gigantic towers made of glass block. Each tower is about 100 feet tall and water falls down on all sides of them. The towers are lit from inside, and the two inside faces of the towers have giant moving faces…like very large TV screens.

The faces on the towers look at each other and every 5 minutes, the faces pucker up and water squirts out of their mouths. Kids wait beneath where the water sprays out and get completely drenched.

In between the two towers is a couple inches of water on the ground. They two towers are about 200 feet apart, and kids run back and forth between the two towers as the face images change into other moving images.

To be there at 9 pm with so many people on a warm summer night was really quite something. Noah had a blast running around and getting drenched, and kicking water on Mama, Bubby Sue, and Grampa Jeff, who were standing just past the edge of the water in between the towers.

Check out photos from the event below. Such a beautiful night in Chicago…

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Sun Salutation:

This one is apparently preparing him for holding a guitar on stage, rocking the crowd with his music:

Go Noah Nooey! We love you!!

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This will probably be the last high flying act, at least until we can get some safety harness rigged up for him Papa was making Mama nervous…despite the fact that he loved it. It was fun while it lasted though. We’ll have to find safer ways to fly in the future.

Or…maybe he won’t fly like this anymore. I’ve learned from this experience that there’s lots to learn as a papa…always. I do many things by myself that would probably make people around me worry if they saw me do them, things out in the wilderness. I have long had a tendency to be somewhat extreme in my activities, but now that Noah is here I have been much less extreme. Still, I can get lost in the fun of the moment sometimes with Noah and go a bit too far.

Bari pointed out to me last night that this tendency ran me into a tree when I was younger, during a training run on the ski team.

So, I won’t be putting Noah in any kind of danger that could hurt him. Lots to learn on the papa path…always.