Back to the family fest again!

Mom had to work an unusual 10 a.m. overtime shift today. So Dad decided that, after he went to the farmer's market to get our CSA share, he and the kids would walk with her to work and then continue to Millenium Park.

It's China Week at the Family Fun Festival, presented by the Chinese-American Museum of Chicago, and Levynn and Lincoln made masks and watched a calligrapher translate their names.

Lincoln is the Monkey King, and Levynn is a panda. She colored the eyes and tongue, then decided to scribble all over the face like Lincoln did.

The calligrapher may have misspelled Lincoln's name in English; he didn't speak the language well, and Dad didn't have the heart to say anything about it. But the translation should be correct because a woman first wrote the name down in English on scrap paper, figured out the proper translation and wrote it below that, and then handed the scrap paper to the calligrapher. So perhaps he mistook the "ln" for an h." Or maybe he just squeezed the letters together too tightly!

We also passed through Pritzker Pavilion, where the Grant Park Orchestra was rehearsing.