Visa applications in Chicago

traffic... don't see that every day in Winona Lake

The other day we headed up to Chicago to turn in our Visa applications---a mere 240 pages of printed material (2/3 of which were just copies)! End-end our applications would have stretched over 220 feet, what fun!

I've decided that I really like Chicago and would love to live there downtown someday---even during the winter! Everyone has those long, puffy, down coats, and they look like they keep pretty warm through walking briskly. The only thing that put me off a bit was the signs on the sidewalk that said, "Caution: falling ice," and you look up and realize that ice falling from one of those skyscrapers onto your head would not be very fun at all.

(update: already got our visas back! A new record - it only took 7 days!)