Andrew's Blog

I went to a base ball game last Friday with my friend from work Steven at Midland's new baseball statium the Dow Diamond. The game was between the Midland based Great Lakes Loons and the Peoria Chiefs (Steve's home town).




This Lou E. Loon, the team mascot, coming up the stairs entertaining the crowd, and then me with a foot long hot dog! (A Loon is an acquatic bird that is found around the Great Lakes)



Loons are batting here.





The real reason Steve wanted to come to this game, actually, was to get an autograph of Hall of Famer 2005 Ryne Sandberg. He played for the Cub's when Steve was growing up and retired in 1997.

Over the Easter weekend, we decided to get out of town and went to Chicago. This time we decided to stay in the "burbs". On I went to Hotwire.com and found a hotel that had a decent price and waited to see what I got. Well it turned out to be Hyatt - The Lodge at McDonald's Corporte HQ...McDonald's??? Yes...McDonald's is headquarted in Chicago, IL which I had never realized before.




Well, the grounds turn out to be very nice and relaxing as you can see from the photos. The hotel was also very nice as can be expected from Hyatt.

They also have their university here...