The Cook's: Tour de Parks

One of the big highlights of Connors summer has been the proximity we now have to a buffet of parks. I think we have hit 5 parks now within walking distance (East Greens, Central, Highlands, Riverwalk, 5th Ave parks). I think we can discover about 4 others within walking distance, so Connor is getting to try out all the slide types and variations. His favorite is what we call the FedEx style slide (kind of like the box rollers).

By far our favorite is Central Park. They have live music in the Naperville outdoor band shell at the park on Thursdays and Fridays, which tends to draw hundreds of senior folks, but they also have food/cookies/pies for sale at the gazebo...Connor loves the cookies!! Overall a real nice slice of Americana. Or as my sister would say, I am a full fleged, granola eating, kool-aid drinking Naperville yuppie.

We bought a new laptop on Sunday...after getting tired of having to vacate to the den to go on the computer. Amazing the amount of laptop you can now get for $700...hadnt bought a computer in years. But man, have they come down. Top of the line HP, with Blu-Ray drive, DVD burner, etc...pretty nice.

Friday we headed down to the Riverwalk for the 95.7 Rocking on the River concert...not exactly, rocking, as was just a litte house band playing along the riverwalk, but what a great setting. Connor was able to convince us to buy ice cream cones, so we had ice cream cones and listened to some tunes. Connor (for the second time in two weeks) was able to sneak a snack while his brother was passed out in the stroller. Connor got a kick out of running up and down Rotary Hill.

The boys spent both days in the pool g'ma got Connor for his b-day. They both love it now and probably spent a good two hours in it this weekend.

Last night was probably the first night since we've been here were we actually did not venture out walking somewhere (due to the storms). Tonight we made a stroll down to Cosi for a sandwich - pretty good stuff. I have held 500 shares of their stock for years, but had not been there in quite some time...still hope it takes off ala Panera, as the food was pretty darn good, and can't beat the trendy atmosphere or ability to make your s'mores at the table...but still has a lot of competition in the quick serve sandwhich market.

Connor sharing his cookie at Central Park...