Hello. It's funny. My message before was shit, the other one was a joke, so let us actually talk about something interesting.

My trip is going alright (the best part is that we go back home tomorrow at 7:20) YES!!!! As you can see though, I have had better.
First off, the gift I gave was a total flop (what a waste of twenty bucks) and it seemed my dearest nephews didn't want to do anything but stay and either play juvenile forms of baseball with rules that seemed to have been made up as we went along or scream for twenty minutes straight or until nap-time. (translation: REAL baseball game, ice scream and shopping... DENIED!!!)

Also, we went to the children's museum on navy pier.... I already thought me coming along was pushing it. The fact of the matter is I don't do well at things designed 'only' for children' and because I look like a freshman in high-school (my looks and height don't help too much either) pretty much, the day became a living hell when thousands upon thousands of students from all over the city were there, and I suddenly felt like I was way too old to be hanging out with my fifty year old (+) parents, my sister and two little boys. I asked if I could just hang out outside (being alone would have possibly made my situation better) but the fact of the matter was, my cellphone-

-was on the goddamn charger at my sister's house in Glennco. And my parents are insistent that I am eight years younger than I am now and need to be protected at all times.

At the children's museum, I pretty much laid low as much as I could. I had nothing but my ipod, which wasn't completely appreciated because my parents made me leave he headphones in the car. (Joke's on them--it has BRICK and SPACE INVADERS. Mheh-heh-heh) but that still didn't negate most of the looks I got from kids three years younger than I was and the staff of the museum.

One thing I appreciated was the fact that there was a camera crew in the museum. They also gave me weird looks at first, but being the resourceful film and camera freak that I was, I charmed myself into a nice discussion.
Here's an excerpt.

"Hi there, are you a newscast team?"
"Ohh, no we're just pretty much advertising for the windy city. If you have comcast, you can see what we film later."
"Ahhh. So I take it you've been to some film school?"
"Yeah, Columbia."
"Great program there. I'm also studying film, but at a community college."
"Which one?"
"I live in California, it's called SBCC, but I am pretty much enrolled in SOMA, aka School of Media Arts."
"What are you studying?"
"This and that, I just wrapped up an editing class, I have also taken cinematography. BTW-- nice camera. Must have cost you guys a fortune."
"Yeah, it was about 30 grand, not including the battery and lens."
"Man, must be really heavy-duty. You can find "convertors" for less than that."
"Really. Since when!?"
"Well there's one being developed by apple. there's one other but I can't remember the name of the developer. Anwwho, Apple's is estimated to be about 3 grand."
"Ahh, so that's why they weren't at the last conference."
"Yeah, I assume they are working out the bugs. What type of lense?"
"Uhhh, anamorphic and developed by fuji."
"7 grand, huh?"
"Damn, you're good."

I'll let you off there. (sorry, that was longer than an excerpt, but made me happy)