Thursday, Jared, along with sister Deon and her boys, left Naperville and headed into Chicago. We toured Frank Lloyd Wright's house and studio, and Wright's Robie House. The Robie house was in pretty bad shape; the University of Chicago hadn't kept it up very well. Now, since February, 1997, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has assumed its management, and is fixing it up. It was a fun house to visit because it was a turning point for Wright where he really started to express his own personal style for the first time, independent of his work with Sullivan and other architects.

    The House and Studio was just as you see in the photos and was fun to see in real life. The house is smaller than one might think, but otherwise was good to see. At one point a woman from Spain asked if we, being from Salt Lake City, were Mormons. When she learned that we were, she said she was too, and was excited to talk to us. We chatted with her for a few minutes and got a group picture. Another guy was just hanging around who we thought was her husband, but no, he was just a guy hanging around. But it turned out he was driving all around the country in his car, kind of like Bill and Jared in the plane.

    After cruising through downtown Chicago, we eventually made it back to Naperville in time to take enjoy nephew Sean's last baseball game of the season. It was played just for fun, not to win. They don't even keep score! They just play for an hour and then go home! It was fun though, then we had dinner and just talked for a while before heading off to bed.