Life has been progressing as normal
here in Chicago since Memorial Day Weekend, with both Cary Anne and I continuing in our theater endeavors. CA recently finished
running sound board for a show at a theater only about 3 blocks from
our apartment. Though I thought she was going to take more of a break
after her last show, she decided to work on this one since it wasn't
a huge time commitment and she even got paid a little. I also
recently completed level 2 of my improv training at Improv Olympic.
This class was a little more calm than my last one, probably because
we met on Sunday afternoons rather than the evening, but it was still
a good time. A lot of this course focused on group work and collaborating as a team, so it was fun bonding with my classmates for 8 weeks.
Also, our church, CCC Edgewater,
recently changed it's worship location. For the past several months,
we were renting out a small, single-room art gallery every Sunday
evening, but the space was starting to get a little tight and we
worried that an evening service with no child care wasn't an ideal,
welcoming environment for families. (Though it was perfect for us
20-somethings who enjoyed getting to sleep in, then going to grab a
drink at the bar around the corner after worship.) So for the past
couple of weeks we've meeting in the mornings in the auditorium of
George R. Swift Elementary School. It has lots of space, and the
walls and curtains are a wonderful powder pink. (During announcements
recently, I made fun of the place by calling in “Barbie's Dream
Theater” and saying, “These walls are so pink they should call
this Taylor Swift Elementary”.) But despite the odd color-scheme
and fact that I'm still mourning my loss of lazy Sunday mornings, the
move has been great, and we're already seeing some new faces.
This week Cary Anne and I went on a
date night to Skokie Sports Park. I discovered the park when I drove
past it on my way to somewhere else and immediately got excited
because I'm a huge fan of miniature golf. In Lexington, there was a
Biblical themed mini golf course (which we kindly refer to as “Jesus
golf”) that, despite the cheesiness, was actually pretty good. We played there multiple times every summer. The Skokie course is supposed to
be like an adventure around the world. You start off putting around
the Sears Tower and Statue of Liberty, and soon you're golfing
through the coral reefs of Australia and under the Great Wall of
China. Overall, it was an entertaining course, and I think we had as
much fun posing with the scenery as we did actually golfing.
After the golf, we walked over to the
batting cages. The only park with batting cages in Lexington closed over 5 years ago and I don't think I had been in one since. CA told me she had never
been in a batting cage. “Never? What have you been doing with
your life?” I asked. "I'm a girl! And I'm worried I'm gonna get hit...in the boob." Luckily, that didn't happen. We basically stuck to the slow
pitch softball cages while the 10-year-olds gearing up for little league laughed at us from the faster baseball cages. Overall, it was a fun evening.
Later this week we'll be flying out to
Colorado to see Cary Anne's brother get married. As you can imagine,
we're pretty excited. CA is a bridesmaid in the wedding and much of
her time lately has gone into making her own bridesmaid dress. I'm
always impressed by her ability to create stuff like that. I took the
easy way out and just went to the store to buy new khakis and a tie.
After the wedding CA's parents will be hanging out with us here in
Chicago for a few days. I'll be sure to share details from our trip on the next post.
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