We headed out to the Shedd again this weekend. A wonderful early morning drive into the city followed by a great morning enjoying all the lake/river/sea/ocean creatures, an ok show, a slightly challenging late afternoon since that's Micah's nap time and a very quiet drive back home with the little guy sleeping off all the day's excitement. 

We love our puffer fish and turtles:

Made sure we were a little less exposed in this picture. I think I'll be sleeping on the couch when this comment is discovered... 

Showing Micah the right way to hold a turtle....  

Not sure I taught him well...

Trying to get Micah to relax his death grip on the poor turtle's neck.

Relax folks, this turtle is a dud. Did you really think they would let a couple of amateurs grab a turtle from the exhibit? 

What do you do when the whole family is up at 8am and already bored stiff from this long winter? Take a spontaneous Saturday trip to the Shedd aquarium ofcourse. And now that we're members this might be a much more frequent occurrence through whats left of this winter.

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On Friday I made a quick trip to Austin to participate in the taping of a customer testimonial for Dell Integration Services powered by Cast Iron. The actual session only took 30 mins and I was only in Austin for a grand total of a little over 4 hours.

Don't use a map, use a Schmap! If you're using the Schmap digital travel guides and search for Brookfield zoo in Chicago you just might see a picture Mary Beth took.

We launched a truly revolutionary product yesterday; Hotelligence 360 .

Here's the intro video. I wish I could specify the preview image for the video, but since I dont have the time to figure it out, it's going to have to be Chris' mug. 

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Hopefully you can decipher the modern day hieroglyphs. If not, gimme a call and I'll walk you through it.