Why didn't I think of that?

There is another convenience - or amenity, even - that our new apartment offers, and, as hard as you will find this to believe, it hadn't crossed our minds until today.

We can walk to the beach.

Granted, it's not Cape Cod or Myrtle Beach. (Then again, it's not salt water, either.) But it's a beach, Oak Street Beach, and it's roughly eight blocks away. So we can walk there. And we did.

What better way to enjoy today's sneak peek of summer, with the temp hitting 84 degrees?

We packed a picnic lunch and left mid-morning on a four-hour outing that also included our first walk to Millenium Park.

Nice milieu for a beach, wouldn't you say?




Here comes the water, Lev!



Can you read Levynn's name? She wrote that. And Mom wrote "Mom" above it.