The Bean

Daughter L had a 4-day getaway to Chicago with some friends recently. Son K asked her to bring him a souvenir of the Bean. It has quickly become a landmark in Chicago since the sculpture was installed in 2004. K was delighted that they found him this cute keychain.

The unfortunate thing was that one of L's girlfriends had to abort her trip and fly home the day after they arrived.  It seems the girl's boyfriend's father went into cardiac arrest the day the girls arrived in Chicago and died 2 days later.  He was only 55.  The man had seemed healthy and was in fact lifting new furniture into the house.  This is so scary and shocking.

At the funeral people were told it would be a celebration of life, were asked to wear colourful clothing as opposed to the colour black.  Daughter L was glad she attended in support of her friends.

Feed My Starving Children

Garrett Popcorn

Daughter L  returned late last week from  a 2 week training course in Chicago.  It was her first business trip!  Besides eating too much, she learned a lot and continues to enjoy her new job and co-workers.

 One day, there was an organized volunteer activity to Feed My Starving Children, an intelligent food bank.  It was not a part of her job, more of an opportunity to get to know her new team members.  Feed My Starving Children  has developed an easy to prepare food blend that is very inexpensive and nutritious. They ship it to starving countries worldwide. L and her co-workers had to help assemble the food pouches that day.  She was very impressed with that innovative non-profit organization.

L said Chicago is a big city like Toronto, but with many more large office buildings downtown and a lot more homeless people.

She brought us bag of Garrett Popcorn which is as good as they say it is.  This bag had caramel popcorn with cashews.