This is the coolest sun picture taken by satellite.

Galena, Illinois

K was on vacation to Grandpa and Grandma's so my husband and I decided to take a small trip where we've never been before. The only catch was we also wanted a day spa. We searched and we finally found the perfect place. Galena, Illinois. There is a neat hotel called the Irish Cottage Inn that has everything anyone could want in Galena. It had the day spa, a place to stay, a pub, swimming and workout equipment. We decided to stay there. We booked the day spa a few days ahead of time, so we didn't have to worry about spot reservation. The first night we were there we kind of took it easy,laid low, and did the spa thing. The second night we enjoyed food and entertainment at the pub. There pub has been there since 2003 and it's pretty nice. Comfortable seating and good food. When we were there some girls did some authentic irish dancing and the main singer, Andreas, from Gaelic Storm performed. We stayed long enough that we got to talk with him and listen to some of the songs he wrote personally himself. Then it was off to bed for us because it was huge day the next day. The next day we toured the town, bought a ticket for the historical trolley ride, bought some chocolate, had a great dinner at an italian restaurant, and then went home exhausted.

Somehow I'm still smiling in this photo, but in reality I'm tired as hell!

The story about this staircase is kind of funny actually. The first day we arrived in Galena it was about 100 degrees outside and sticky. For some odd reason out of curiosity and maybe a second wind of strength we decided to climb these awfully high and steep stairs. At first we ran up them and about half-way up we lost quite a bit of energy. As we look up we sadly realize there are still about 50 more stairs to climb. Remember this isn't 60 degree weather we're doing this in it's 100 degrees, anyway we finally make it to the top and then my husband says, hey look another set of stairs! I just about died. I told him I'd stay and watch while he took pictures at the very top. So here is the photo of the bottom of the staircase and I will soon send the photo of me at the middle of the staircase. The history of the stairs is the school children would climb these stairs all 92 of them 3 times a day. That's 276 stairs!!! No wonder everyone was so skinny back then. They said you knew a Galena girl by the size of her calves.

This picture is dedicated to those of you who appreciate sleeping in.

A few changes

For some reason I felt like I wanted to do some changes on my blog this weekend. Aside from going to work I decided to continue and finish that this weekend. It was such a beautiful day after work today, we all decided to spend time outside. I blew bubbles with K and my hubby worked on his car with our neighbor. Then we ate out on our porch because it was so nice out. We made tasty garlic and cheese bread with our spaghetti and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think K and J enjoyed it too. After we ate I played in the sandbox with K and afterwards we grabbed a treat from the ice cream parlor. My all time favorite ice cream zanzibar chocolate, k's favorite ice cream strawberry, and J's favorite ice cream mint avalanche. K right away when we walked in the door said "ma ma don't eat it that's mines(her ice cream), you have chocolate" so I wouldn't pretend to eat it. I just had to laugh.
Anyway, about the blog, I wanted to change the dynamics, some of my interests and update my entries. I was actually tired of reading the entries so I just erased them. I'm sorry to those who felt they were intriguing in any way.