can't believe it

So I see the last post I did was more than a month ago! WOW! - in that time Phil and Jeremy took a trip to Ireland! During the trip - Jeremy went to London for the Cubs Cardinals baseball game. The guys had a great trip with our friends Ron & Mary. 

I stayed in Chicago and organized all our stuff which we had combined into one household from two in January before we left for two + months in Spain.

I had one fabulous dinner out with Todd & Evie and Jenny at indienne 

I went to see a play and had dinner at FONDA to check it out for a friend

photos from FOMDA 

this pretty much catches up to Phil's return from Ireland at the end of June... in July- we started with dinner with Todd & Evie at the Loyalist... and then went off to Montreal to meet up with friends Clause & Evi who were visiting  Canada from Germany.)  

in Montreal- the first place we ate was Schwartz's for smoked meat- 

later we went to the market and got natas! 

that night we went to Chez Sophie

the next day we started out with St Viateur bagels and later met our friends for dinner

Phil couldn't stop at one bagel sandwich...LOL

the next day we had lunch at a portuguese place for a terrific seafood lunch!  Cafe Ferreira!

dinner was with our friends and their family at Tbsp... it too was very good but lunch was special- 

we ended our evenings at the hotel bars with our friends and spent hours catching up and getting to know their daughter in law 💕

Then it was back to Chicago in time for a birthday celebration for friends Lee and John both have July birthdays!  but that will be another post!

this and that

So let's catch up again - since I have been gone for a week or ten days - 

Two nights ago we had a fun dinner at friends, Lee & Nick's house,  with John & Stephanie and Lee's best friend Lisa... Nick made some fabulous cocktails and we all had an "extremely good" evening  LOL 

The one I requested - HENDRICK'S NEPTUNIA  (Lime, Cucumber, Elderflower Tonic)

a photo from Nick's FB page-  we had ours in a regular glass but it was still fabulously tasty- 

Yesterday we went to a concert called Violins of Hope - which featured violins that were saved from the Holocaust. One of the featured musical selections was the New World Symphony a favorite piece.

We ate at home a number of nights but still had a lovely meal at Osteria Langhe (where we hadn't been since Covid)

 I also worked on the deck to get things ready for summer- 

We also had another Sunday night dinner at Chengdu Impression which was again really good.

We had pizza  & salad dinner with Zack & Becky and their girls, Abby and Maya, at Burt"s 

And we had dinner with Jenny, at a "new to us" place called Il Milanese - it was really good!

So that brings us up to date...and we are now heading into June and settling in for summer. We see Leslie twice a week for training, and Phil leaves for Ireland in roughly two weeks.  Meanwhile, we have some more catching up with friends at dinners and I have a couple of theater tickets for when Phil is gone... so I will be back soon with some reviews.  This week we are catching up with Sheila & Mary at Oceanique...