Obviously the marathon is THE big piece of this weekend…

But the other awesome thing is for the third year in a row I get to spend a weekend in Chicago with my friend Kevin.

Two years ago we both ran and he and Danielle had their hotel room and I stayed a little north of the park where the marathon begins and ends.

Last year he ran and I made a last-minute decision to come watch and crashed in his hotel which is right there, a little west of the park.

This year will be a repeat of last year - except I’ll also be running and we won’t be doing the Wrigley Field tour, as you see above.

But we have some other plans:

This Week’s To-Do

OK, first of all, finally - I’ll be Running The Chicago Marathon on Sunday.
There’s a chance we’ve already Visited The Marathon Expo by the time you read this, but otherwise we’ll be doing that today. Good luck to me not spending a zillion dollars.
Monday the plan is to Check Out A Chicago Museum. There’s a cool exhibit that I’ll be writing about once everything settles down in the next couple of weeks.
This is exciting - Likely Seeing Matt Perform on Friday. Kathleen Edwards and the band are in Boston.

Last week was a lot of just looking forward to this week. There’s not much other detail, but you can click here to see what I wrote:

Last Week’s To-Do

Only a little bit of worry about getting to Chicago with airports and air traffic controllers in the news, but hopefully I’m in Chicago when you read this.
Did some laundry, did some shopping, I feel like I can skip town with a clear conscience.
Also took care of a last couple of parent responsibilities.