Navy Pier

We headed to Navy Pier against my better judgment. My Mom loves to go out there ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT!

Here we are on the train! We know we are going to be whipped after this outing!

So since Grumpy Old guy got this granddaughter we have all become shit to him. He doesn't even notice the rest of us if she is in the room! She kind of took my spot, if she wasn't so damn cute I might have to kick her a$$!

I had to post this picture because I was on the escalator trying to get a shot of everyone arriving at Navy Pier. I was standing backwards on this escalator when I went ass over tea kettle at the end! Did anyone help me????? Hell no they all laughed at my blue panties since I had a skirt on! Blake even text all his friends about my mishap. Kelly couldn't wait to post it on FB. No one seemed to give a shit that my a$$ really hurt. Karma is a bitch...they better watch their a$$.

Kelly and I were talking about the cute train guy when we got off. Blake chimed in telling us he was gay because of his earrings. I said he was Metro. The guy turns around and tells us he can hear us talking because voices carry in the station. Kelly and me want jump under the train but Blake is laughing! He was one hot metro sexual though. We all jumped on the water taxi to head over to Navy Pier.

As soon as we get off the water taxi Kelly tries to get her hooks in some half dead billionaire. Then she realizes he is already a stiff. Better luck next time, Kelly.

Blake finds some kids to run around with. He ends up thinking they are a little rough around the edges, so we roll.

Cole and Aidan always have to do everything Blake does.

Aidan steals a kiss before we leave this scene.

We head over to Bubba Gumps, with Grandpa Grumps for some lunch. I can't believe it but they don't serve Dr Pepper here. Wasn't that Forests favorite drink? One of the guys that work there is a Snoop Dog look a like. My kids are fascinated by him. Every time he walks by Blake tries to get a pic of him with his camera phone.

Aidan of course needs to go to the bathroom right after we get there. I take him to the bathroom and there is a lady guarding the men's room door. She tells us we will have to wait a minute. We stand there with this other guy thinking they must be cleaning it or something. Not the case at all, some loud and in charge lady pops out of there and says when you gotta go you gotta go! Now that takes balls to have your friend close down the men's room so you can take a shit. Not to mention pretty much tell everyone you just took a shit in there. There was a pretty big line waiting to get into the ladies room so I guess she must have had no choice. It kind of reminded me of the days when I worked at Havertys. I had a thing about pooping in public. The Havertys I worked at had two floors so they had a bathroom on each floor. I made an "Out of Order" sign for the upstairs bathroom. I kept this sign under the sink in that bathroom so when I would have to go I would just hang the sign on the door. It really worked like a charm most of the time. There is always that one a$$hole that pays no attention to things like that and does what they want anyway. So I was caught with my stink on a time or two.

The boys want to ride the Sea Dog at Navy Pier. That is all the boys but Aidan. He is a bit of a nervous Nelly and was to scared to ride on this boat. I really can't believe this since we own a boat and he is a huge boat lover. I feel bad for him because he is just like me. He will miss out on a lot of fun things if he doesn't get over this. The nice thing is he will at least be the voice of reason when they get in HS.

The boys have a great time on the Sea Dog. They came back with their hair standing straight up. My poor Grumpy Old guy came back with a empty wallet. Everything is so damn expensive at Navy Pier.

I like how long my legs look in this mirror! I have never seen myself with long legs before.

We are enjoying a cold one and listening to some great music when they announce the band will be taking a short break. They fill the time with a few audience participation games. Kelly and me drag the Grump over to the game because he is always lucky. My Mom and me have a running joke about getting "A JOE KANE" pass when we win something or get out of something. Every time this guy gets pulled over he gets out of it. Whenever something bad happens to him he comes out of it just fine. Like the time he had a heart attack refused to get in an ambulance and drove himself to the hospital. Who does that and lives to tell about it. Anyway he won this little game of course and got us some ride tickets!

We of course have to ride the Ferris Wheel. They always stop us for that over priced picture that we buy every year.

The boys go in a hanger by themselves. While at the top a helicopter goes by. Blake tells Aidan that the helicopter is going to crash into the ride. Aidan starts to cry, he was already nervous going on this ride. I could strangle Blake sometimes. A lot of Aidan's nervousness comes from all the crap Blake has told him over the years.

The girls are in the next hanger. Kelly just pinched Ella as she handed her off to me for a picture. She tries to make me look bad but I got her number.

I really don't want to go on the swings at the end of the night. I talk Kelly into taking Aidan. I'm just excited that he is not afraid to go on this. Every time she goes by me she shoots me the bird. She can be so ugly to me!

We decide to leave at around nine O'clock. We hop on the water taxi to go back to the train station. At the half way stop to the train some dumb asses get on the taxi with out a ticket. This slows everything down. We ended up at the train station five minutes late for our train. We have to wait another hour for the next train. Who gets on a water taxi without a ticket anyway. We end up in Mac Donald's eating ice cream sundaes. Boy you can't beat those for a dollar.

Kelly can't help but be ugly to me again on the train. Since we are on the train at 11pm we are surrounded by drunk people. There was a SOX game and a Bon Jovi concert down there this night. I love people watching on the drunk train.

Quick story from earlier today. I was at Walmart which you always see some crazy people there. What is it about that place??? You don't see that crowd at Target. I'm buying dog food and socks. The lady checking me out says......what kind of four legged friend do you have???? The bad part of me wants to make reference to that vibrator that everyone raves about called "The Rabbit". I know that will just go over her head though. I tell her I have a Doberman-Lab mix. She tells me she has eight dogs and a cat. Great, I say! I tell her I like my dog more than the people I live with. She tells me that her dogs are the only ones who don't get scared when she walks in the room naked. I do have to laugh out loud for sure. I'm walking to my car picturing this women naked in bed with eight dogs and a cat. For some reason that Mr. Rogers song is running through my head. You know the one......Who are the people in your neighborhood, in your neighborhood, in your neighhhhborhoodddddd. There the people that you meet when your walking down the street each day. I think Saturday night live may have a skit with that song in it. I think people are strange and very interesting. I love when someone tells me some crazy thing like that. I still have lots of Chicago post to go, so until next time. I'm off to hang with these people I live with.