Oprah

Something to check off the bucket list! To celebrate good friend Danalee's birthday, eight of us congregated in Chicago a few weeks ago to fulfill one of her life dreams of attending an Oprah show. Quite the experience! Excitement started at 9:30am when we lined outside the Oprah studio and waited. Talk about a bundle of bubbling estrogen. By 11am they finally began letting us in the doors, through a coat/security check, computer reservation check-in, providing a seating number, introducing the show topic, submitting questions for Oprah, filing into a waiting room, waiting, talking, waiting, finally being seated in the studio, waiting, administration interacting with the audience, waiting, preparing for Oprah to enter... oh the anticipation!! Quite the experience. It was kind of surreal to be sitting so close to Oprah. The show aired Sep29th to kick-off breast cancer awareness month with guest, Christina Applegate, and a majority of the audience comprised of amazing breast cancer survivors. Lots of sniffles! Danalee give a more detailed account here.



Great weekend. Despite the aftermath of Hurricane Ike storming through--which didn't stop us! With umbrellas in full bloom we took a great architecture tour by boat through the winding water channels of the beautiful city. (Dana always looks great--even in plastic!)



One of the best views of the Chicago skyline can be found at the top of the John Hancock Center. Particularly it is known in the tourist underground to have the best view from any bathroom stall EVER. I just felt bad for the poor lady who entered the bathroom stall only to find me and a camera pointed at her...



Also had a great time visiting a dear college roommate Deb and celebrating her birthday at her favorite Chicago dessert cafe. ...New York's got nothing on the windy city!