Laura just left us after visiting since the middle of last week. She came for a Tastefully Simple party that Beth hosted and was given by her high school friend Lynn, then stayed for the long weekend. Saturday (nice and sunny) we went to the Blueberry Festival in Plymouth, where Beth and I found something we'd been looking for for nearly a year: an engraved wooden plaque that says "The Knights, Warsaw In" for us to hang on our trailer when we go camping. We also sampled...I am not making this up...a deep-fried Twinkie. Yes, there are apparently those who believe that a Twinkie is not fattening enough as is, so they came up with deep-frying it. However, I must say it was REALLY GOOD. Sunday we went to Chicago and spent the night. We did the Museum of Science and Industry but only had about 2 hours before it closed, so we hit the highlights of the new exhibits...trains and planes, mostly...before getting to the Omnimax show about helicopters, which startled Alex quite a bit. He watched the show but the loud noises bothered him, so I watched it holding him in the rear of the theater and took him out when it was too much. We all stayed in a hotel room about a block from the Hancock tower, at the Raphael Hotel, a room I got for $50 on Priceline.com. I think a regular price room like we got would be closer to $150. Of course, the entire time we spent in Chicago was cold, overcast, and drizzly.