Hi Yesterday morning Korra and I drove from our hotel in Chicago to my Grandpa's place. My dad and uncle were already there and Todd and Sarah joined us soon after. We got Chinese take-out for lunch and took it to a local park. The weather was lovely, if unseasonably warm. It was actually the park that has the swimming pool where I learned how to swim and the park was also near there Grandpa grew up so he told us some stories about his childhood in the area. 
We went over to my aunt's in the late afternoon to rest a bit and see my cousin Julie. Todd picked up ponza rottas from Jimmy's Grotto for dinner and we all went to bed early.
After lunch we went back to Grandpa's apartment for bithday long john doughnuts. We enjoyed looking through a really neat family history document that Grandpa's cousin made in 1998 that includes our lineage back to Ludwig and Catharina, who were born in the 1820s and immigrated to the US in the 1880s. It includes photocopies of the ship's manifest, requests for citizenship, obituaries, land maps, and photographs. Then Grandpa took us on the tour of his building (it's been redecorated since I was last there) and we stopped in the garden where Grandpa had secretly planted 2 tomato plants. Todd and Korra helped him pick all the ripe tomatoes.
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