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Chicago Taft Style
... However, when Roosevelt told Senator Henry Cabolt that he would be unavailable, Taft won the majority with 702 votes. This horrible action on Roosevelt’s part made Taft look like a fool through the rest of his campaign. Since Roosevelt had left the campaign trail, William Taft’s legacy solely depended upon Theodore Roosevelt. One columnist even said that Taft stood for “Take Advice from ...
Hi Obama - Nice meeting you!!
... over 30,000 people to listen to the speech. So now what do we do?......one of the groups of volunteers started moving into the stadium,
their names being marked off a list, collecting their badge to wear. SO, we get on to that line.... We reach the lady with the clipboard who asked for our names......to which they replied, 'Sir you are not on our list, Who is your team leader'? Mike replied ......'Julia Gillard' ...
Chicken in the Car....
... as Jaleo in DC). Then it was back out - across the street there was a free summer dance going on, and a woman on the stage was teaching Bollywood moves. Kelly and I joined the fun (maybe 100 people there?) and danced! In the rain! What a hoot! We had fun dancing for about an hour, then started walking some more. It started raining harder, so we just went back to the hotel. Of course, we blogged and watched the Olympics.
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Six Flags & The Windy City
... rollercoasters first with a wooden one caled Viper and one of their more modern ones called Ragin' Bull. Continuing around the park we lined up for American Eagle: the park's oldest wooden rollercoaster which seemed tame compared to the new ones. It was starting to warm up so we cooled off with the log ride.
Before lunch, we decided to line up for Vertical Velocity which is a pretty new, magnetic rollercoaster that has a single U shaped track. It was hot standing in the ...
Quiet Day.....42C!
... The kids show themselves as the power takes ages to come back on and how can you possibly play video games without power.....the parents are not too displeased at the predicament...hehehe!
We decide that now the weather is pretty good that we should play mini golf at a place that was only about 10 minutes from the house. Nothing like getting the competitive juices flowing amongst 5 males......mind you Samantha wasn't too bad in those ...