Hoppin Into Spring Break Mode

Spring Break for Rachel and Danielle officially kicked off on Good Friday. Is it almost over already? We had fun where we can: colored eggs, I made them watch the MGM classic, "Ben Hur" starring Chuck Heston, did a little golfing, watched some WGN baseball and celebrated Tax-Day by going to the beach (a year ago, it was snowing on April 15, and a year before that, it was probably snowing on April 15).

Danielle explores "greener" modes of transportation.

Gretchen waits patiently for the other half of my $5 foot-long.

Brian and the girls show off their PAAS creations.

I tried to talk one of our lunch guests, 92 year-old Bettye Kellar (not pictured), into coloring an egg, but she was having more fun sitting on the rocker, reading the April issue of Rolling Stones, and enjoying the sunshine. She's also Jewish, not that it would have stopped her. She's 92! She does whatever the %$#@ she wants.

Gretchen and I were psyched for [the rescheduled] Opening Day. White Sox had a great start to their season, which lasted as long as Gretchen's baseball.