[Magdalen] home from Chicago

[Scott Knitter]

Now that you're back from there, I can mention the fascinating but
stomach-churning article I read once about The Juice, which is what the
festival workers call the massive amounts of liquid they encounter at the
bottoms of all the rubbish bins. They go home smelling like The Juice and
apparently never forget the stench. :) Of course, it's a mixture of
absolutely everything liquid from all the marvelous foods consumed at the
festival, plus everything else one can imagine people putting in the bins.
Yay!

I had a colleague in Lansing, Mich., who asked friends all year to donate
coffee cans (Maxwell House, I think) so she could turn them in for food
tickets at Taste of Chicago. I hope she took back samples for the
coffee-can donors! Not samples of The Juice...just tasty foods that travel
well.

Glad you got to Grace Place...a friend plays the piano there on a Saturday
evening for the Lutheran Loop ministry of Holy Trinity ELCA. It's basically
a student ministry, as the Loop has become one of the nation's largest
college campuses (with residence halls for DePaul, Columbia College,
Roosevelt, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and more)..

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bill and I are home from a great trip to Chicago.  We navigated the CTA red
> line for 2 round trips. We enjoyed the pandemonium of Taste of Chicago, a
> really cheap way to eat if you don't mind huge crowds or messy fingers.  I
> ate Thai food and Bill had a deep dish pizza slice, we both had Eli's
> cheese cake covered with chocolate ad crunchies.  We spent 2 nights in the
> Palmer House. what a beautiful hotel!  Went to church at a loft space kind
> of minimalist church decorating but well done furnishings and liturgy.
> Grace Church on south Dearborn.  The preacher was a 20 something lay woman
> who preached about the difficulties of "come to me all you....and you shall
> find rest."   It was a very good sermon.
>
> We took the el to Wrigley Field and watched the Cubs play like they did in
> the 50s and 60s..(Badly)
>
> On Monday I got to check one more thing off my bucket list, we toured
> Wrigley Field.
>
> Today I am resting!
>
> Judy
>
> --
> Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
> Western Michigan
>



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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA