Hi, thanks for joining us today. It's Nora and Nora, we're sure glad you're here. We are, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2:You know regular listeners and welcome. If you are a new listener, we're always happy to have you. We do have a little bit of housekeeping from our last episode, because there was a person on TikTok who pointed out Herkel Dirkle is not a German word.
Speaker 1:Yes, it is in. Frank Scottish and I was grateful that she pointed it out, but I sensed a tone, a tone.
Speaker 2:Well, that's what's tricky with texting and social media. It is very tricky to a text Because she might have been like oh, but then maybe you would put a smiley face.
Speaker 1:So I am guilty of too many exclamation points and too many smiley happy party emojis. And I text like I talk, which I think is a problem sometimes when I need to be more professional.
Speaker 2:Oh, sometimes when I have my husband read emails before I send them, he's like get to the point. Oh, because I'm like hello, how are you? I was thinking of you the other day because I saw this, which made me realize I had to email you about this, and Al is like so you lose the whole first paragraph.
Speaker 1:Cut to the chase, exactly.
Speaker 2:But speaking of cut to the chase, I'm really excited.
Speaker 1:And speaking of TikTok, speaking of TikTok, so I have full disclosure.
Speaker 2:I did not hear about this on TikTok, but what I read an article about it that it was on TikTok, because Coca-Cola Company has a TikTok store and they've been trying to do these special creations and this one is called Happy Tears.
Speaker 1:Love me some Happy Tears.
Speaker 2:Wait, happy tears.
Speaker 1:Do you cry happy tears?
Speaker 2:I do. I get happy tears. I get them a lot, so it's called Happy Tears and it comes in a silver briefcase. It does come in With a tear coming down it, which looks a little funky.
Speaker 1:Does it have a smiley face or something on there?
Speaker 2:No, it just says happy tears. But here's the thing, nora, it comes with two keys, so you need a friend to help you open it, like the nuclear codes.
Speaker 1:So we've got to open the nuclear codes I strongly think he mentioned. Wait, hold on. What do you think this is made out of the tear?
Speaker 2:Hot glue yeah. Oh wait, the keys are just for show.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, no, no, you actually I'm going to put mine on a necklace.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, oh, best friend's friend. Oh, mine's open, there we go. So it's an actual drink. Oh my gosh, this is so cute. It comes with tissues for your happy tears.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're happy. And then there's little stickers that says oh, that one's cute, so but it's an actual and look, it comes with one for you and a friend.
Speaker 2:Yeah and oh, the stickers were in here.
Speaker 1:I don't know what this is.
Speaker 2:That's a shirt Stop it.
Speaker 1:And purple's your favorite color. Purple is my favorite color. Quick traps of joy.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Oh, long sleeve.
Speaker 2:Oh, I like this shirt. I love a long sleeve shirt. So it's this whole thing. It's Coca-Cola creations, so you actually drink it, ok, so it's no sugar, so you'll be happy with that.
Speaker 1:You might want to. Oh yeah, there's no, I love some, I love fake sugar.
Speaker 2:So it's Coke Zero, happy tears, and there's hints of something in it which I forget what it's called.
Speaker 1:But why did they create it, do we?
Speaker 2:know, I think they're just trying to stay trendy, stay in the loop.
Speaker 1:Listener, I'd like to point out that on each can is like a 3D strip, and Nora might be right, I think it is glue.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hot glue. Oh yeah, because you could peel it off, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:But this is a nice can because it has all these decorations.
Speaker 2:Yes, so it has a dash of minerals for taste. That's the tears.
Speaker 1:That's the tears, the salt of the tears, that's the blood, sweat and tears of the workroom.
Speaker 2:It says we hope that Coca-Cola happy tears, zero Sugar, will inspire uplifting moments and friendly gestures that create a cascade of uplift and optimism. I love this. For us, that's our podcast Cascade of Uplift and Optimism, yes. So tears to happy tears, I'm going to ask. I'm just going to have this taste like we'll see.
Speaker 1:This is the happiest drink I've ever tasted.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, it's pretty. Oh, there is some peach in there. It says it's cope, infused with a salty splash of minerals. A pinch of peach, drawing inspiration from the tears of joy brought on by small everyday acts of kindness.
Speaker 1:Wait, did you taste the peach before you read about the peach?
Speaker 2:No, I read about it.
Speaker 1:Oh OK, I don't detect a peach. I see a little bit.
Speaker 2:It's definitely. I think it tastes some. There's definitely something else than normal cope Mineral. It's that mineral, yeah, so Well, thank you, happy tears. Yeah, I mean, I have to say I'm very impressed and I couldn't figure out how to buy it from TikTok because not a TikTok Nora so I bought it off eBay. Maybe it was sold out, oh, maybe.
Speaker 1:Oh, I like this sticker. Wait, did you have to pay an upcharge because you bought it, not really.
Speaker 2:Second, Because I bought it like second and it was worth it.
Speaker 1:It was not.
Speaker 2:It really wasn't that expensive.
Speaker 1:This is really cute. But I thought this is cool.
Speaker 2:The packaging is fantastic, my grandpa always used to say, for crying out loud so we can share the stickers. Ok, day made, oh, but this is just dialing. I love this.
Speaker 1:Coke. This is odd Like why I think if you have like a middle school girl, this would be a cute thing to give them. I think they would have fun.
Speaker 2:They had a thing and you were like oh, you've like, I'm really proud of you Like happy tears. That's a really lovely idea. I wish you'd had a handle. Oh, it's a, I know, A sizable thing, but anyway. So thank you for sharing some happy tears, thank, you for sharing with me.
Speaker 1:You know what it might pair well with oh, what Well? I actually don't think it will but an Oreo, because it's National Oreo Day today. What, yes? So go out and get yourself a package of Oreos, Oreos. Do you have. Do you like Oreos? You know what Oreos I really like? What? The vanilla Me too.
Speaker 2:Oh yes, I like the gold Okay, Mostly because they don't get weird chocolate in your mouth, in your teeth.
Speaker 1:Yes, I like the mint, the peppermint, jojo's from Trader Joe's. I've heard so many of those, they're so great I've heard you talk about those.
Speaker 2:My dad growing up in high school I think part of college too worked at the Nabisco plant on the south side, no kidding. So he's got some pretty funny stories about Oreo and Nabisco and all kinds of things like that. One day we'll have We'll have him on top of Oreos.
Speaker 1:Okay, that sounds great.
Speaker 2:But I have you another TikTok trend. Have you heard about this? Look at me, I'm too friendly. Trendy Nora, what are you doing at the double waistband? Pants are trending. Is that like? It's like marky mark and that's horrible. It basically those are cute. I'm like that. So those are kind of cute. So there's so one of these. Looks like you have a light denim wash and then a dark denim wash. It looks like you have two pairs of pants on, which also made me laugh, because Rory always wears two pairs of pants to school every day. Oh, he does. Yeah, because it is like the way the pants feel.
Speaker 1:And I just, whereas I have a compression pant underneath Kind of these are.
Speaker 2:So I would imagine these aren't two pairs of pants, it's two waistbands sewn into pants. It looks like your pants are falling down. It does, and the author of the article was saying she was. It is kind of a double standard because she said I feel like when men wear, when you can see men's box or shorts, you think they're kind of a slap. But now women are doing it on purpose and it's supposed to be like fashion.
Speaker 1:I want to see the back of them.
Speaker 2:Oh, the back, they don't show it.
Speaker 1:Those are kind of cute. Oh, those have like a collar.
Speaker 2:But I also feel like the problem with me with these double waistband pants, is you need to wear a crop shirt on top, so then people can see. Because it's like what's the point? Yeah, I'm not wearing a crop top anytime soon.
Speaker 1:But speaking of clothing, do you know Michael Jordan Sneakers went to auction? His own personal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it was a collection.
Speaker 1:It was called the Dynamite Series. Whoa, so there's six pairs in there. Wow, do they know what games he wore them as? So yeah, he wore them in championship games 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98. Whoa, do you want to take a guess at how much somebody spent on these?
Speaker 2:Okay, so there's six pairs of shoes. This is good. What like $600,000? I don't know. I eat millions. Stop it. I know it was one of those things where I didn't want to. I was worried that I was guessing too much and then you'd be like oh no, it was only this Holy cow, I was way off, I know. And then does Michael Jordan get that money?
Speaker 1:I don't know where the money goes. Maybe they were the auction for charity, I don't know. Wow, but then you get them, I'm sure, like in a case, yeah, but then what do you do with them?
Speaker 2:You hold onto them and then, if you ever need $8 million someday, you sell them. Is it like an investment?
Speaker 1:I don't know, but I was thinking, if you were the same size as him and you bought them, would you wear them?
Speaker 2:I think you'd have to try them on I'd wear them or you could put them on.
Speaker 1:I totally would. I would buy your Christmas card.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, we both have families of six. We could all stand there and enjoy them. Oh, that's great. It'd be like we're homeless now because we just pay $1 million. I'm Jordan.
Speaker 1:But I think I would be so tight If I bought six of them. Why not? Yeah, you've got to try them on. I mean, I wouldn't wear them to Mariano's, but I might. And then if somebody really oh cute kicks, they'd be like oh there, michael there.
Speaker 2:And then if someone said are you going to wear it? Wait, oh, I had a good joke about just do it and then I fumbled.
Speaker 1:That's okay, I'll never mind. Wow, that's a million dollars.
Speaker 2:Could you imagine having just $8 million lying around?
Speaker 1:Could you imagine it's spend on her? Could you imagine if Al or Ryan came home and he's like oh yeah, I said an auction tonight. Look at what I got. You're like oh, there's a receipt. You can return it, I'm like hey, I'm going to text one back and forth. Hey, nora, the bidding started at $2 million, now it's up to $8 million. Should I write what?
Speaker 2:No, I can't even fathom that level of wealth to be able to just spend money on that kind of thing. You know, agreed.
Speaker 1:Sorry, I'm just chugging.
Speaker 2:It's so good to know it's happy tears, it's delightful, and I was a little worried that we're gonna be like well, it's poison but no, it's lovely. That is mind-boggling to me, that is.
Speaker 1:I know I can't even really wrap my head around it.
Speaker 2:No, but those are big shoes too. You got to have a big, big house to display those.
Speaker 1:Right, and you also have to have a space. That it makes sense. You can't just put them in your bathroom.
Speaker 2:It would be funny, well, but then I was thinking it'd be funny if you had a mudroom and be like put your shoes away, like Michael Jordan's shoes in there, and then you also you spent $8 million on it You're gonna put them in your mudroom.
Speaker 1:Even then you put them in a display case and you're like, hey, do you guys want to see Michael Jordan's shoes? Like what?
Speaker 2:If you're a real sports buff and you have, like, a lot of things memorabilia in your basement.
Speaker 1:Like in your office.
Speaker 2:Oh, and then you're like humble brag on your Zoom calls Like, oh, these.
Speaker 1:You got these from a friend, Mike my Zoom. I'm always like positioning it so you can't see my treadmill behind that Flaring the back. Yeah like in the dining room with like nice lighting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nope You'd be like oh, these old things, oh, from the 90s, don't worry about it. If you know, you know.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's funny. Speaking of Michael Jordan, oh yeah, I was thinking of adventures we've taken and it kind of segues into our topic for today, which is adventures, big and small. Yes, and I was thinking about our Scottie Pippin adventure. That was an adventure, and yeah, I wonder how much issues would go with that. Oh, bless them Okay.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I would think to an adult who grew up during the Bulls' Hay Day they probably would.
Speaker 1:Think about all those middle aged men in Scottie Pippin jerseys.
Speaker 2:Right, oh my gosh. We went to the thing you and I were dressed to be downtown and there were lots of people in Scottie Pippin jerseys. I'm sure if they had the money they would want a pair of issues.
Speaker 1:That was one of my favorite adventures that we had taken. I made a list of some of my favorite adventures that we've taken. Yes, and that was definitely one of them. That was so fun. It was planned. It was fun, yeah.
Speaker 2:And that and Slamu was a good adventure.
Speaker 1:Slamu was. Slamu was a good adventure, Both of which were planned, but you know which wasn't planned it was a gale. Should I wait to dig a some A little urban tailgate?
Speaker 2:I totally forgot about urban tailgate.
Speaker 1:That was so spontaneous. Did we pull that together in a day? We pulled that together in like an hour. I was driving home from the lake, that's right, and I was like I can get home and shower because it was something we wanted to do and we realized we have today to do it.
Speaker 2:That's it, yeah, and so we sent a mass text. I thought, really, who's in? Yeah? And I got three people, two people in. We were out from like one PM till one.
Speaker 1:We were out a long time and he was. We went to go see DJ Lee, michael DJ, because we're. I saw a friend of mine. He was like yes, yes, yes, and remember he walked us to dinner.
Speaker 2:He was very kind. Yes, he did. And we made friends at Urban Tailgate other podcasters we did. We learned a lot about people we always end up having lovely. Oh, remember they sent us that terrible drink. Yes, I do. This was like a. I mean it is it's a day drinking kind of place. It's outside. It was very cool. It's on the rooftop of Piper's Alley in Old Town and we were drinking beer. I think we maybe had a margarita, but we really kept it.
Speaker 2:Beer, yes, or it was more like simple cocktails, but for sale they had these giant solo cups filled with just any jungle liquor Two bottles yeah, and we were like, oh, that's not our bag. But the people sitting next to us were like we sent you one and you and I, being who we are, felt the need that we had to drink it. Yeah, because we didn't want to be rude to people we have never seen again.
Speaker 1:That we will never see, but we did make plans to go visit them before we did. I'm sure they're waiting for our phone call. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:But what about your own personal Norweesfall adventures?
Speaker 1:You know I like the small adventure. I kind of try to turn everything into an adventure. I like that. You know what my favorite adventures are, what those adventures that take me straight to home, goods, and so I have kind of a new system.
Speaker 2:You're like the Indiana Jones of home goods. Thank you.
Speaker 1:Do you want to get in there and?
Speaker 2:it's like what. But he's kind of cool, but he's an archaeologist and he digs and like, looks for cool artifacts, oh yeah, so that's you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love home goods. But with this new system where I go to Manjumanja next door and I place my lunch order, okay, and then I get a Diet Coke and a Styrofoam cup, perfect. And then I leave and I go over to home goods and I do my shopping there with my Diet Coke and then when I'm done, I put my goods in the car, walk back to Manjumanja, get my pot refilled and what that's a boss move.
Speaker 2:And he's very easy on me. He's like, oh, now you drink all your drinks.
Speaker 1:I don't know, and he offers so then, I get my pot filled up, I get my lunch. I feel like I didn't have to wait. What?
Speaker 2:do you get for Manjumanja I?
Speaker 1:give great soup.
Speaker 2:Really it used to be in a different location because we used to eat there growing up. It was on Joliet Road. You know where Tony's is? Yeah, and that's. It used to be in that little strip, oh, yeah, okay, but then Dominic's before it was Mariano's expanded and kicked him out.
Speaker 1:Oh, and they have good other.
Speaker 2:I've been eating their ages, I haven't eaten their ages.
Speaker 1:It's good, I like it. So, anyways, those are my favorite food. That's a good, good gig, but with my kids I love to be like hey, do you guys want to go on an adventure and then turn Target into an adventure?
Speaker 2:Oh, that's nice, Like stop price coming along the way, I don't know. I just want to mix it up Kind of. Yeah, I'd be like let's just get out and go and do something.
Speaker 1:Let's do an adventure. But anyways, you know what is also kind of out of roll? Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2:I talked way too much in the last podcast, so I'm very what yeah?
Speaker 1:because you watched the movies and I didn't. You did your job, you carried the last podcast, I think. Thursday night we like to go on an adventure. Yes, we always need an adventure to find new places.
Speaker 2:Have you ever doubled up Like? Have you ever liked?
Speaker 1:Yeah, sometimes if we're on a time cruncher. It's based on, like the kids, sports schedules, sure, so this Fall it's been a little more complicated because we have a lot going on on Thursdays. Yeah, so we'll go to, like our tried and true Yorktown. Yeah, if we can't get far it's a good spot.
Speaker 2:I saw your parents. You always see my parents, yeah they don't forget about it. I forget about it.
Speaker 1:Are you an adventure?
Speaker 2:girl. Um, I Think I guess I would say yes. I think definitely more before I had kids. I was. I just feel like study abroad was a gigantic adventure and that I taught.
Speaker 2:Yeah it was fun because I was talking, I had a friend Maybe a couple years ago who's like you know, could you talk to my daughter about studying abroad? And I kind of thought about it and what I said to her was like the best thing about study abroad, there's no one who goes to study abroad that isn't up for an adventure. There's no one's gonna lead their school and go to Europe and be like I don't want to, I don't think I want to do. You know, everybody is there to try new things.
Speaker 1:Everybody is there to like you know that was not a thing at the University of Arizona.
Speaker 2:I kind of wish it was. I kind of tried my feet a little bit because you know I was involved with theater and a boy and friend and my parents were like Basically forced me and my sister did and was like what is wrong with you? Why would you turn this down? It's like you're dumb.
Speaker 1:I took a month-long adventure Overseas in my junior year. Some are going into senior year from high school, but that was different. I mean, yeah, it was all over the place with a group, came back and that was it. Yeah but like you really were there a long time, it was there, yeah, and on your own, yeah mm-hmm, and you know, just trying to figure out the currency and like getting there and the flight schedules and the train schedules it was did you go with? Somebody you knew.
Speaker 2:I so my friend Sharon was go. I knew her boyfriend really well. Okay, I didn't know Sharon as well like we had mutual friends and then we became really good friends. Studying abroad Did I didn't know Sharon was going until after I signed up.
Speaker 1:Did your parents come and visit you?
Speaker 2:They did my parents, my sister I don't think Sean came because he was at NYU and my grandparents.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then?
Speaker 1:you had a lot of visitors.
Speaker 2:We had a lot of visitors and then it was very sweet because, like, we had family friends who were like, oh, we're gonna be in London and reached out to my parents and got in touch with me yes it took me out and we're like, oh, if Nora and a friend would like to come out to dinner Like our friends in laws, that was so nice, I was like this would have ever had, very, very kind.
Speaker 2:But you know, like we had to spain and saw a bullfight, which I don't recommend, but just, we've talked about bullfights as well. Bad news Paris, don't go. Oh, but that. And then, when Alan I were married and we lived in London, we went to China, which I would say is our most oh wait, I guess actually the other adventure we had. We went to Budapest and we're like we got to try like the baths, like, yes, one of the bath house Really so bad because it's a natural warm spring.
Speaker 1:Bath house. You're telling this to the girl that didn't want to touch her gun in her own home and spit it into the garbage without touching it.
Speaker 2:I'm so glad I remembered this so I knew obviously I know Al has diabetes and I know like one of the limitations is you they really should die. But it should not be in jacuzzi or like, cuz it's like can kind of give you it kind of just it doesn't keep you as in touch With your blood sugar and you can kind of feel low or whatever. So we get there and you know we get in tourist swimsuits, but swimsuits I believe were optional because people are like don't go to like the tourists. Did you see somebody's privates? And so where they're like, you know, go to the real deal, don't go the tourist ones.
Speaker 1:We're like why are tourists more likely to drop their drawers?
Speaker 2:I think they're less. It's just more Americans there and you know you want to be with the Hungarians, apparently. So we're like, okay, so we get there. And I was like, well, I can't really stay in very long. I was like what he's like diabetes, so, but it was just like a bunch of dudes, like big Chubby Garant dudes in these baths, like some of them really plain checkers or chests like at the side of the bath house and then so then out, you know, but we're like in this water. Oh, and you were like it's kind of like it was a beautiful building in a beautiful space, but I was just like I can't just marinate here.
Speaker 2:Love that for you. But one another adventure we had. This was very. We went to China and we wanted to see the Great Wall of China and friends of ours who were living in Beijing at the time said well, if you eat lunch at this restaurant, they have a private section of the wall that hasn't been refurbished and reconstructed, so it's very rustic and they're like in. It's just that you have to hike up To the Great Wall of China.
Speaker 2:We're like oh, this is great. Yeah, that's cool, this will be really cool. So we have our lunch, which is very nice, and then we go. But it was kind of like a legit hike and we were not quite but and then we hiked up, we got to the top of the the Great Wall of China and you're like we are the Only people that we could see, for like as far as the eye can see, and we were like, wow, this is really cool. But then we were also like shoot, something goes wrong, you need to get help, or I need to get help, and we're like we should go back.
Speaker 1:I wrote that down actually in my show notes. Like whenever you hear adventure you usually think outdoors. They kind of go hand in hand and none of my adventures and mostly are really like outdoorsy Never done really.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm not a big outdoorsy gal, I'm not an outdoorsy.
Speaker 1:Nora, I know same as yeah, but I would like it to take a road trip somewhere in an RV. So does my husband, and then I want to park it in a fancy resort and then stay there for the night. Oh cause you don't want to?
Speaker 2:sleep in the RV. There was a lot of talk going around for my brother-in-law's 50th birthday that we were going to rent RVs and drive from Mount Rushmore to the Grand Canyon, which is fine for families of four or families of three, but if you have a family of six you need like a tour bus to fit your people in. So I've heard yes, like the Parkstreet family. But I was even thinking about some of the small adventures, like do you remember the first time you like flew with all your kids like babies by yourself?
Speaker 1:I did a lot of flying with babies by myself because I would come back to Chicago for the summer right from Scottsia.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I was so used to just doing everything by myself. No disrespect to Ryan because he is very helpful, but that's really all.
Speaker 2:I knew. But I remember the first time I flew with the three kiddos by myself and just being like, all right, I got this in the snacks and like just having like your game face on, like this is how I'm going to get through security. I will do this. I will like the baby like I had it all.
Speaker 1:And then they wipe your hands and wipe your straw. Yeah, there's no standing there. There is the baby strapped to you, like there is nothing on my hands, there's nothing on the stroll. You're like you're probably sticky.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm sorry about that, but even after Rory was born, when we were living in Manhattan, the first, like Alan, back to work. My mom went back to Chicago and I was like I'm going to leave the house today because Eden was 17 months old. Rory was a newborn in January and we didn't have a car because we lived in Manhattan. So I was trying to get the double stroller and I was like I will leave the house today, I will leave, but I couldn't get like my stroller. Oh no, I couldn't get the car seat attachment on the stroller and I like little like 17-month-old Eden's, like can we go now, you know? And again Rory like oh, and I was like crying, I'm like I didn't do it, just want to leave you alone, just want to get out of here.
Speaker 1:Just want to get out.
Speaker 2:And then I was like I called Alan, he's like I don't really know how to just grab it over the phone. And then, even like one of those moments you're like I will do this no matter what and I don't know how I figured it out, I got it. I got like Rory clicked in, like Eden snapped and I was like happy tears.
Speaker 2:Then I was crying Because I was like I did it. I left the apartment, but where did you go? Do you remember? To the neighborhood Barnes Noble? Yes, you did, With my double stroller and I think because there was a Starbucks in there. So I had Starbucks. They got a cookie. I think I bought something for Eden because I was just like we did it, we got out, we got out. I probably was gone for like 45 minutes. I was so proud of myself.
Speaker 1:OK, hey, that's one of those things.
Speaker 2:Happy tears, yes, happy tears like oh god, but yeah, they made, they made. Yeah about it, it's bananas. I like to celebrate those little things too. Have you ever slept over at a museum or the aquarium?
Speaker 1:Kind of not really into museums.
Speaker 2:Oh, ok, but if I think you'd like to sleep at one, maybe, yeah, no.
Speaker 1:My idea of a great sleepover involves like Rosinless yeah, but you, you're a sleepover of museums. I love them. Museum sleepovers. Can you go with your mom? I mean in your kids, yes.
Speaker 2:Ha ha ha, girl, strength. You imagine me and my mom, my brother, my daughter. She's earned it. When we were growing up, we used to sleep over at this.
Speaker 1:Oh, you guys did that when you were kids Science and chemistry OK, that's cool.
Speaker 2:And then, with I took Ada and Maria, my niece, we did a sleepover at the Field Museum, and then me and Al took Ada and Maria to the aquarium. We spent the night there With Rando's oh yeah, you're sleeping. We brought air mattresses, though, because we learned. And where do you set up shop? We, for the aquarium. We were in the coral reef zone, so it was cool you had, like, the tank above your head.
Speaker 1:Was it like letters Like S through V Like to sleep here? Yeah.
Speaker 2:No, you have to like. Clean your spot, you go anywhere, and I'm like the museum and sleep. Well, I think there are certain places they blocked off, but I was like Is it like you run to the spot to get it? Yeah, it's Black Friday and then what do you do when you get in there? You put your sleeping bags down so you kind of mark your spot, and then you go around the museum. They have special nighttime stuff, but at the Field Museum we slept in the dinosaur bone area.
Speaker 1:That's had a good, it's got a good, did you?
Speaker 2:sleep Not great, you weren't like, but I mean you do a little bit. But you know there's 75 other people in the room with you and they're like get in the bathroom or whatever. But I just like One, two, three. When you wake up they're all in your like oh I'm, hello, dinosaurs, it's anything. I had to recommend it. I think it's really fun, but it's not for everybody.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Like me, they're not inviting you to a museum.
Speaker 1:And I don't want to be disrespectful, no, you're not. That's awesome for you, but that's yeah, I love that. It's great for people, other people.
Speaker 2:Well, yes, you got anything else. Well, I was, because we've done a ton of road trips. I love a road trip and it is always an adventure because something always goes a little bit pear shaped. I got to get a pivot Done road trips with.
Speaker 1:Like Ryan and I drove a friend of his mother's moving van across the country from Arizona to Fonda, Wisconsin. So we Whoa, you know, across country in a U-Haul, the two of us in college. Oh OK, how was that?
Speaker 2:I think it was fine, yeah, I mean when it's adults, it's really not that bad. Yeah, I drove a small school bus. That was an adventure To from Chicago to Illinois State University, which I do not recommend.
Speaker 1:And many other Chicago residents have probably done this, but the standard road trip from here to Indianapolis, to Churchill Downs we have not done that and to Nashville no.
Speaker 2:I've never been to Nashville. I'm dying to go, you're going to Nashville, aren't you? No, we're not Our kids. No, we're going to Florida now, ok, which I am very excited. We're going to go or see my parents and it'll be awesome, nice. But I would like to still go to Nashville, but Al has a work trip there, so I'm hoping maybe, mom and dad, if you're listening, you want to spend a weekend with my kids, so Al and I could go to Nashville.
Speaker 1:Oh nice. So yeah, we check our kids to Nashville. But you know what my favorite adventure trips are? Who? What Sports trips?
Speaker 2:Oh well, like wait for your kids, or like going to see games at a gym.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we have a couple that we always travel with. We try and do one sports trip a year. Mostly it's college basketball. But we've seen. I mean we've seen it all. It's really fun Because we go with, there's a plan, but things always go crazy. There's all sorts of tumfulery.
Speaker 2:It's nice when you have a trip, that there's like one central thing that we're, you know like we got one thing on the agenda and everything else. You know it's nice if you have a couple of people who, like, want to play in some meals.
Speaker 1:And it's just one other couple, so it's easy, it's just four people.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's great so you're not like easy to breathe in. Maybe a reservation for 25. Yeah, so that's awesome.
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Speaker 2:Shall we highs and lows. Yeah, what's your load this week? I'm losing my voice. Can you hear it? It's a little raspy. I heard it when you got here. I can't tell if I'm getting sick or if I'm just using my voice too much, Like I'm talking over 47 kids Chill. So I don't know.
Speaker 1:Maybe still, I'm not sick.
Speaker 2:Yes, well, you know I'm happy to drink tea all day long, True? So I just hope it's just annoying. Yeah, even like this morning, my kids were like ugh.
Speaker 1:But then maybe your kids will be better behaved. Not that you have poorly behaved, oh the musical kids are my own kids both. Well, we guess both. Yeah, We'll see, I'll let you know. My low is we celebrated Ryan's birthday yesterday and we got him the wrong size golf shoes. Oh, they just came out and L ordered them for me online, so they were like brand off the process. Yes, but I was off on time. Can you exchange them? Yeah, oh, ok, but I was just disappointed.
Speaker 2:You know, when you give a gift, you want it to be right. No, I get it. I get it. My high is the Reese's Pieces. Easter Eggs Are they back? They're back, and it's such a cheat because I gave up chocolate for Len and they're all peanut butter. So I'm like gosh, there's no chocolate in them. So technically, I'm not breaking my Lenten promise. Ok, well, enjoy then. So I am. But I am kind of like this is candy, but I didn't give up candy, I gave up chocolate, You're fine.
Speaker 1:You are fine. How about you? And my high is? I got my ears re-pierced in July. Do you remember that? Yeah, and I have had such trouble with my left ear piercing the new one, yes that I've had to wear the regular studs for so long. And then every time I try I switch them out, something happens, and then I have to go back to the original studs and I think it's finally cured, I think it's finally healed. I thought once we're full of earrings I haven't been able to wear since July, and I think we're back in business.
Speaker 2:There you go. Well, that is a happy news. Yeah, Well, thanks for happy news. Happy tears, happy adventuring.
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