WWH and Van Tai Cao

I was great to have some visitors for Labor Day weekend. Wes and Van are guys I worked with at the University of Kentucky. They are now out of school and wanted to make the trip up to visit. What a great weekend.


Wes, Van, Steve and Kentucky ginger ale 

They arrived Friday night at about 9:30pm and we went straight to Buffalo Wild Wings in Lake in the Hills, about 20 minutes from home. Sometime around 1:30am we went to bed. Next morning we started with a big breakfast made by the lovely Molly. I had an important meeting from 10am-1pm out of town, so we put Wes and Van on the Metra train into Chicago where they base-jumped off the Sears Tower (well, they took an elevator to the top, anyway). Then they ate Chicago style pizza and came home.

Sunday afternoon we took them to Portillo's, another Chicago style restaurant with italian beef, italian sausage, Chicago style hot dogs with all the fixins and more. They loved it and so did we. It's a favorite McCoy family restaurant.

They spent a lot of time playing with the kids, which was a blast for the kiddos and wore out Wes and Van. The kids cried when they left because they wanted Wes and Van to live with us. Uh...I don't think so.

It was so great to have them here, and they even granted my wish of reloading my fridge with Ale-8-One, a popular Kentucky ginger ale (pictured in our joyful hands above). You guys are welcome back anytime. It was a blast.