Trip to Illinois to visit Grandma

March 2009. On the plane waiting for take-off...heading to Illinois (via St. Louis).

March 2009. Reading the same article; how quaint.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois. Kimber uses uncle Chad as a balance beam...surprisingly this is before she started gymnastics.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois. Kimber taking a nap while uncle Chad reads.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois. Being silly.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois; at the brickyard where Dad worked as a teenager.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois; at the brickyard where Dad worked as a teenager. The base of the smoke stack alongside one of the furnaces.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois; at the brickyard where Dad worked as a teenager. The smoke stack alongside one of the furnaces.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois; at the brickyard where Dad worked as a teenager. This was taken in front of one of the furnaces.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois; at the brickyard where Dad worked as a teenager. Inside one of the furnaces.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois; at the brickyard where Dad worked as a teenager. Entrance to one of the furnaces.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois; at the brickyard where Dad worked as a teenager. Furnace window/vent.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois; at the brickyard where Dad worked as a teenager. Furnace window/vent.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois; at the brickyard where Dad worked as a teenager.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois; at the brickyard where Dad worked as a teenager. One of the furnaces.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois; at the brickyard where Dad worked as a teenager. This is part of the railing used to move the carts loaded with bricks.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois; at the brickyard where Dad worked as a teenager. One of the carts sitting on a remaining piece of railing used to move the bricks.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois; at the brickyard where Dad worked as a teenager. Dad explaining how things worked.

March 2009 - Visiting Grandma in Illinois; at the brickyard where Dad worked as a teenager. Kimber and I peeking in to the warehouse where the stuff was kept. It has most recently been used as an art studio; we could see all kinds of metal-type art stuff.