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Inside the Glessner House.
We ventured over to the Glessner House yesterday to meet the staff and check out the wedding location. Lovely place. Add the snow on the ground and it’s really beautiful. Only 5 days to go.
Walking along the Magnificent Mile…. Chicago.
Here’s Irv looking like he’s gesturing toward the Trump Tower. Irv was a famous newspaper man in Chicago. I personally had never heard of him, but he’s famous none the less. Famous enough to get a statue anyway. Way to go Irv.
Wandered around Chicago with Martin yesterday briefly while Karen and Mary went in search of boots. We, meaning Martin and I, were more successful. We found photos. The boots remained elusive.
Man From Snowy River – Chase sequence – Fantastic music here and beautiful photography to go with
High Fidelity – Let’s Get It On – Jack Black doing his thing
Reality Bites – All I Want Is You – WARNING – There’s a brief speaking part that’s not in English (a person has to take what they can get with YouTube when movie rights, etc. are in effect).
Jackie Brown – Across 110th Street – Opening credits of the movie
Pulp Fiction – Girl You’ll Be a Woman Soon – WARNING – drug overdose scene in this clip right near the end – I absolutely love Tarantino’s film making.
Once – Falling Slowly
Trainspotting – WARNING – Foul language alert
Kill Bill Vol. 2 – Goodnight Moon – Quentin Tarantino knows how to use music in his films
Moulin Rouge – Come What May – This is a great song, and I was totally surprised to learn these two could sing.
Chicago – Cell Block Tango
And, of course, a couple of additions because I never stop at 10…
Immortal Beloved – Ode To Joy (love the visualization of ode to joy… beautiful film making here)
Duets – Cruisin (cheesy, sort of, but who knew Gwyneth could sing… not I, until this)
Here I sit, 29 hours after getting up at home yesterday morning, sleepy yet chipper, enjoying a cup of tea at Mary and Martin’s house in Lancaster, Lancashire, UK. They live on, get this, Portland Street. Fitting eh?
The trip this long day went very smoothly until we got to Chicago. And really, getting there wasn’t the issue… leaving was. We ended up sitting on the tarmac for an hour waiting for a nasty passing storm to pass. At one point they grounded all outbound traffic, but only for 15 minutes… thanks very much. After taking off we go the other good news… no movies for us. The video system was down. But, Karen and I are really good about entertaining ourselves… so between reading, watching part of a movie, talking, and listening to music we were OK. We landed at 8:10 AM Manchester time Friday morning. Funny as we took off in Portland at 8:10 Am Thursday.
I will interject here that I’m very tired, and am not really responsible for the contents of this entry….
OK, back to our regularly scheduled post… today, after arriving in Manchester, we met Mary and Martin and then took the train from there to Lancaster. The ride was about an hour and half, with a switch of trains in Preston. One thing’s for certain. The public transportation system here is stellar. Who needs to drive? You can get everywhere on the train. So… we arrived. We checked out their house, which is totally great by the way… great feel, great house. Then we took a bit of a walk along the canal with the dogs and then another, without the dogs, into town. What can I say about this place… it’s, very sincerely, a storybook town. It literally looks like we stepped inside a fairy tale. I mean… the town has it’s own castle. It’s own Roman Bath ruins (we saw the pile of rocks). It has amazing history. More on that by looking up the war of the roses. Yep. Lancaster was involved.
So… I’m sleepy. I’ll add pictures, I actually took a few today despite my hindered state of awareness. I will blame any blurryness that might be present in the pics, again, on my hindered state of awareness… stay tuned. I’ll add them after I get a bit of sleep and can type more than a few words without nodding off.
So far… this trip is kicking butt. LOVE it!!
