{"id":11865,"date":"2024-11-19T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=11865"},"modified":"2025-04-01T09:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:36:10","slug":"extended-weekend-recap-11-15-11-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=11865","title":{"rendered":"Extended Weekend Recap (11\/15-11\/17)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe took a vacation day on Friday (11\/15)<\/strong> so we could join the DuPage Birding Club for a walk around McKee Marsh in Winfield, and walk we did. My watch calculated it was approximately 3.5 miles! Added a new bird to my life list – a Fox Sparrow.<\/p>\n

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Saturday (11\/16)<\/strong> we ran some errands in the morning, including a trip to MicroCenter for Joe to pick up the parts to build himself a computer. His laptop was old and getting slow, so he built a desktop for himself and now World of Warcraft, his favorite game, runs much better.<\/p>\n

For lunch we tried a limited time Mike\u2019s Hot Honey pizza from Lou Malnati’s. <\/p>\n

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We made the mistake of ordering a small thin crust which is not a good value for the price, but we weren’t sure whether we’d like it. Turns out we loved it! My only complaint is they don’t put enough giardiniera on it. Some pieces didn’t have any at all and the pieces that did tasted better.<\/p>\n

We plan to get another one, this time a large, before it leaves the menu.<\/p>\n

Sunday (11\/17)<\/strong> we went on another excursion with the DuPage Birding Club, this time to Muirhead Springs in Hampshire. There wasn\u2019t much waterfowl there during this visit compared to in October, but I did add a new bird to my life list – a Snow Bunting! <\/p>\n

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Cute little thing.<\/p>\n

Sunday evening we had tickets to Illumination at Morton Arboretum. Despite the drizzle, we forged ahead and still had a good time, sharing a hot apple cider while taking in the sights. It even stopped raining about halfway through our walk which was nice. <\/p>\n

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I\u2019m glad we decided to attend early in the holiday season before it got too cold as that was a big reason we hadn\u2019t gone in years past. Even with the rain the temperature outside was very comfortable. That being said, from what I gather it’s largely the same every year, so we probably won’t be going again anytime soon and will instead try something different next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe took a vacation day on Friday (11\/15) so we could join the DuPage Birding Club for a walk around McKee Marsh in Winfield, and walk we did. My watch calculated it was approximately 3.5 miles! Added a new bird to my life list – a Fox Sparrow. Saturday (11\/16) we ran some errands in the morning, including a trip to MicroCenter for Joe to pick up the parts to build himself a computer. His laptop was old and getting slow, so he built a desktop for himself and now World of Warcraft, his favorite game, runs much better. For lunch we tried a limited time Mike\u2019s Hot Honey pizza from Lou Malnati’s. We made the mistake of ordering a small thin crust which is not a good value for the price, but we weren’t sure whether we’d like it. Turns out we loved it! My only complaint is they Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,142,2,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excursions","category-food","category-nature","category-photos","category-recaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11865"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11919,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865\/revisions\/11919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}