Leticia just uploaded a photoset of our honeymoon trip to Galena, Illinois.
We stayed at the most excellent Farmer's Guest House B&B, lovingly restored and maintained by Jess and Kathie Farlow.
Restaurants enjoyed include Fried Green Tomatoes (Italian), Fritz & Frites (German/French fusion), Durty Gurt's (hamburgers), and Benjamin's (bar & grill).
Also spent quite a bit of time reading and relaxing at Kaladi's Coffee Bar.
And, of course, who could forget Kandy Kitchen?
Taking advantage of Jess and Kathie's prodigious DVD collection (dwarfed only by Jess's academic-scale knowledge and library of jazz), we watched:
- Boys Don't Cry - De-feminizing Hilary Swank strikes one as kind of difficult.
- Million Dollar Baby - Oh, wait... Never mind...
- The Number 23 - Leticia and I were married on Nov. 3, or 11/3. 1+1 = 2. Ergo: 23. We were born in 1974. Going from inside-out, 9-7 = 2 and 4-1 = 3 -- 23 again. Wikipedia has more on the 23 enigma.
- Knocked Up - An IMDB user sums it up well: "Vulgar, but certainly not stupid."
- Zodiac - Wow... Robert Downey, Jr. playing a drugged-out alcoholic. Reminded of when Sir Laurence Olivier told Dustin Hoffman "Why not try acting?" on the set of Marathon Man. Look for Downey to play fictional industrialist Tony Stark in Iron Man. (In the comic, which I devoured as a kid, Stark became an alcoholic.) See a pattern?
- Secondhand Lions - History will likely remember Michael Caine as one of the best all-time actors, guaranteed.
Back to reality, such as it is, on Jan. 2.
(Disclosure: The Illinois Bureau Of Tourism (IBOT) is a longtime client of our employer, Edelman. Neither of us were compensated for this post, obviously, though the relationship with IBOT is certainly how we became aware of Galena.)
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