Chicago!

Pictures: Dave enjoying a smoothie at the Grand Lux Cafe; the Art Museum- impressionists; really old art- Loni and Phil.

Home about 3:30 pm. Pictures from Chicago above. We had a great great time! Chick and Gary were amazing. I had been working on getting Dave a "meet and great" with Chick (a dream of his for years) a few months. We got to the point of "ask when you get to the auditorium" point thanks to Dave Bartz and Bernie Scott. I decided to call the box office about 3:30, got a hold of the hospitality host, he said we were on his list and he'd let me know as soon as he spoke to Chick's "people". I got a call about 6:30pm. Yes, Chick agreed to a short meeting after the gig, only 3 people. It was so great to tell Dave. Now, how do we decide the third person. It ended up to be Dave, Tim and me. We got to the auditorium at North Central College (it's very similar to the Andrew's University auditorium) and got our seats. We were in the 3rd row stage left and had a great view of Chick and his magic fingers. The first half was wonderful. Dave went to talk to his "buddy", Chick's sound man, Bernie. All of a sudden I was talking to the hospitality host who said we could go meet Chick now! I retrieved Dave from Bernie and we followed the host to the basement. The pictures are on Phil's camera and I should have tonight. I think I'm going to have Dave talk about his experience. All I'll say is: it was great, Chick was so kind, what a climax to the weekend. Again, thanks to our helpers. :)