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Kathy took this shot of the Chicago River, taken from the
Michigan Avenue bridge, looking east toward Lake Michigan:

This is the Chicago Water Tower.  It is one of the few (if not the only) landmark left standing after the great Chicago fire.  It looks so dwarfed now compared to all of the tall buildings.  This is also a good example of the difference between Kodak paper and good processing and Agfa paper and discount film processing.  The one on the left was taken on my camera and had the better processing, the other on Kathy's and had the cheaper processing:

Kathy went with one of her friends, Jenny, to Navy Pier.  These were taken from the big ferris wheel that is out on the pier.  The first is looking south, and the other looking north (roughly).  Once again, her pictures are surprisingly unvivid with a grey skyinstead of blue.  (It makes me glad I used Wolf Camera for mine):

There was (is still, until 10/99) a traveling art exhibit that happened to be in Chicago at the time.  There were painted cows, literally 300 of them in all, scattered around downtown Chicago.  We only took pictures of a few of them.  If you're interested in finding out more about it or want to see all 300 of them, click here.

A bull serving a fish:

Well, they sort of look like swing shoes, right?

This is the entrance to the Tribune building.  Pretty cool architecture, eh?  Anyhow, I had never noticed in my entire life that all along the outside walls of the building, on all sides, there are stones that were placed into the building when it was built -- stones from all around the world from interesting places -- as part of an architecture contest that the building was entered in way back when it was constructed.  Click on the picture below to view some of the stones that I'm talking about:

Okay, we're up to Saturday now.  My niece and her fiancé (now husband) had a mixed Christian/Jewish wedding.  It was held at a Jewish temple.  I was an usher, and thus the tuxedo.  This is Kathy and I outside, before the wedding:

My niece, Rebecca, and her new husband Joel in the receiving line after the ceremony:

My sister-in-law, Meryl, and my brother, Mike, nearest the center of the picture:

Me, my two sisters, Gwen and Adrienne, and Adrienne's son Christopher:

Two similar pictures of my immediate family -
Mike, Adrienne, Mom, Me, and Gwen:

Joel and Rebecca making their entrance into the reception hall:

The cutting of the cake:

The first dance:

These two are basically the same, but with slightly different facial expressions.
My mom, Adrienne, Rebecca, Mike, me, Gwen, Chris (Adrienne's son),
Natasha (Rebecca's sister) and Beth (Gwen's daughter):

My niece Beth and her boyfriend Todd:

Kathy and I:

A ridiculously close-up picture I took of Kathy:

A sort of random shot of Joel (and somebody's head):

My mom and all her grandchildren -
Chris, Natasha, Rebecca, my mom, and Beth:

Basically the same as above without my mom:

Randy (Natasha's boyfriend), Natasha, and Rebecca:

Kathy and I a couple of the cows, "Muddy Holly & Peggy Moo" ©: