a visit with family

So we are waiting for the documents for our visa applications and getting more and more frustrated - meanwhile we are stuck in Chicago with crappy weather and dark skies (daylight savings time ended.  We are stressed beyond reason and the guy who is supposed to be working on the documents is giving us a run around and non answers- it's just horrible. Luckily Steve & Suzanne came to visit and distract us from all the aggravation.

our first night out with S&S at Coda Di Volpe (Italian) on the Southport corridor.

The next dinner out with S&S at KOMO

Then we ate at home one night when S&S cooked us a feast and I made a pie and appetizer samsas....

The meal by Chefs Friedman

The next night we had a meal at Kasama! 

They left on Friday and we had to cancel our trip (scheduled for Sunday) to New Orleans and Miami.  We now have four business days left to get our missing paperwork and little faith it will be completed in time. So we have now started the process anew and are redoing all the other 15+ per person documents... we are both at wit's end.....