home...where my music's playin'

i am back from chicago.

it was a good little vacationing adventure with my mom.

we got there on friday night. and slept.

saturday i got measured for a bridesmaid dress, stopped at our old church and talked to the janitors, stopped at a friends house and chatted for a while.

then we went down to navy pier and saw "marionette macbeth". it was beautiful, done completely with beautiful marionettes made by compagnia marionettistica carlo colla e figli. this company as founded in italy in 1835 when the colla family began touring small towns and villages in italy, putting on marionette shows. they became famous as they toured and by the early 1900s were mounting productions at many well-known european theatres. today, the family (it's still predominately run by the colla e figli family) works out of theatre gerolamo. so basically, now they adapt plays (you can't really do the entire three hour run of macbeth with puppets) and tour them.

So the nine actors sat in front of the stage and read their lines, while the puppeteers moved all the marionettes. it was quite beautiful. here are pictures of some of their productions (and be warned all the words are in italian and the pages run a little slow.

then we ate at connies pizza. i took pictures of the pizza. it was the first time mom had chicago pizza since moving.

sunday. we went to the art institute and walked around for a long time. i bought a print of picasso's the old guitarist and another of seurat's a sunday on the la grande jatte. and i saw both in real life. *sigh* and at the moulin rouge by Lautrec and portrait of daniel-henry kahnweiler by picasso and van gogh's starry night over the rhone and a lot more which were all beautiful. then mom and i walked a little over a mile to the museum of contemporary art where we met a friend. that museum was lovely. then we went to the cheesecake factory. i forgot to take pictures.

monday. field museum. good exhibits. then we drove home.

pictures soon.

i hope your spring breaks are going well too :-)