Fernando's Adventures: Father's day weekend

This past weekend was another great one here in Chicago.

On Thursday I hosted my last Happy Hour here in Chicago. I held it at South Branch which is a bar that my friend Harley is an investor. It is a happening place along the river where the beautiful people of Chicago hangout. I really enjoy these outings and spending time with friends.

I took Friday off from work and spent the morning helping Tanya get ready for her eye doctor. We left the house and arrived to the eye doctor at 11:45 AM. Once we walked in we found out the appointment had been the day before at the same time. Tanya walked out very upset and had to return the following day. I tried to cheer her up by taking her to eat some pizza Neapolitan. We ended up at a place called Coal fire. Someone at the plant had mentioned this place and thought to give it a try. We ordered 2 different pizzas as we could not decide between 2 different types. It was very tasty but we both prefer the Neapolitan pizza from Denver.

After lunch we left to spend the afternoon at the Field Museum. While at the museum we went to the children's play area and then visited the new exhibition, Extreme mammals. Before leaving I bought a vanilla shake from McDonalds.

Once we put the kids to bed we watched the movie The Grey. Tanya is not a big fan of these movies and made it through 20 minutes before leaving to bed. I sat and watched the rest of the movie and thought it was fairly amusing. I'm sure wolves would attack if threatened but not to these extremes.

On Saturday Tanya got ready and went to the eye doctor, again. Her eyes seem to be improving but still needs to go back sometime this week to check on her progress. When Tanya got back home we packed the kids in the van and headed off to the Highland Games. I'm a fan of bagpipes and enjoyed the Highland Games in Denver so thought this would be worthwhile. I took the family to the Isaca suburbs. Once we made it to the games we had to pay $40.00 to get into the festival. I thought this was really steep but at least the money went to a charity. The games were great but the sun was scorching. A couple of hours into the festival the family was wiped out and fell asleep. Fortunately they fell asleep next to the bagpipe competition. I spent about 1 hour listening the bagpipes and miraculously Valentina and Daniel were able to sleep through everything.

On the way back the family and I stopped at Los Comales for Dinner. We got back home very tired but satisfied with another great day.

On Father's day Tanya woke me up with some gifts and a card. She got me a couple of shirts and a pair of workout shorts. Tanya then headed out to Lindo Michoacan to purchase Barbacoa for breakfast. Upon her return the family then sat down and had a fantastic breakfast. Then we all got ready to head out to Forest Park Beach. There we were going to meet up with our friends, the Spamers. After 1 hour of driving we parked and walked 20 minutes to the beach entrance. We met up with Alejandro and he walked us down to the beach area. Before entering the actual beach we had to pay $40.00 ($10 each including Daniel!!!). This place offers a fantastic beach, scenery and amenities. It was nice to see how the 1% live and enjoy their weekends. We spent the afternoon with the Spamers before heading back home around 5:00 PM.

Once we got back home Tanya made the family some dinner and I watched the Miami-Oklahoma NBA finals game (game 3).

This was another great weekend and Father's day. I'm very blessed to be able to do the things I do and enjoy the family that I have.