Day 2, Sunday, July 27, 2008: Ann Arbor, Michigan to Naperville/Chicago, Illinois

Passengers: 2
Bags of chocolate: 2

Hello again, this time from the Central Time Zone! The new theme of this trip is “A Duck A Day,” and I have included a picture of today’s duck(s) from the Naperville, Illinois Riverwalk.

After a healthy dose of English-major cynicism over breakfast with the much-missed Leslie and Doug, we headed west to Chicago. It is a good thing we love Leslie, Doug, and the sandwiches we had so much or else this day might have started off on a sour note due to a very bad pickle. But seriously, the pickle I had tasted like a cucumber and it was kind of gross. Doug commented that the order-takers at Zimmerman’s Deli should really come up with a better marketing technique for their pickles and I agree. When you walk in and order a sandwich, they ask you if you would like a “new crispy pickle or an old garlicky pickle.” I mean, would you ever choose to have an old garlicky pickle? As Doug said “I would never choose a pickle when the description of that pickle could also apply to my grandfather.” Truth.

Anyways…on to Chicago. I slept through most of the drive, but apparently we passed the circus en route to…somewhere. Or maybe Mike just made that up because he was annoyed that I was sleeping.

We are staying with the Family Sierawski in Naperville, a suburb of Chicago. To be honest, after the puke incident, I am so thankful to be sleeping in a real bed! Two parents and at times seven children live here, but right now we have the run of the house and so are doing the only logical thing…watching the flatscreen TV in our PJs and using the wireless Internet ☺.

Tomorrow we pick up Daniel and continue on to Lincoln, where they have a unicameral legislature and the fabulous Jonathan Jones.

Addendum: Mike wants to clarify that we actually had LUNCH and not BREAKFAST or BRUNCH because we ate sandwiches.