Texas Roadhouse - Rockford, IL

After work we stopped here for a burger and a beer before working at the nearby Starbucks.  It was quite tasty.  In fact, we forgot to even get a picture of the food before we ate it.

very good bread

There's the Shiner Bock, right in the middle

done

The Texas flag

looks like rain's-a-coming

Yeah, definitely on its way

Cubs v. Braves

My first baseball game!  The Chicago Cubs v. The Atlanta Braves at Wrigleyfield.  It got cold, and by the end of the game, they were playing inside a cloud.  The Cubs won!

ooh, look at the sunset

notice, we moved seats

After the game, we went to a place called Merkle's:

Dopplerock

Vanilla Porter

fog!

Janesville and Time Out Pub & Eatery

We walked around Janesville, WI for a bit, then had lunch at Time Out Pub & Eatery.  The Rock River (which is a tributary of the Mississippi) flows through Janesville, I liked watching it, thinking of traveling on a boat or something.  There were some nice sights in the city as well.

At Time Out the beer was Spotted Cow (which is only available in Wisconsin) and the food was a burger.  It was tasty.

All other activities?

Rock County courthouse

Civil War Monument

WWF pandas?

The Rock River

Spotted Cow

bacon

O'Hare International Airport - ORD

My owner went to O'Hare Airport to pick up his friend - and he brought me along.  I only got to see around Terminal 5 (this is the international terminal), but it was great to see all the travelers arriving.  It was raining when we got there, but stopped so that I could get a look at all the flags outside.  I like flags, have I told you that before?

Airport #1 for Ollie - hopefully not the last!

Keeling-Puri Peace Plaza, Rockford

Wow!  Wind.  Flags.  Peace?

This place is called a "peace plaza" and they have flags from all over the world flying here.  It was nice and windy so they were flapping and snapping in the wind fiercely.  The sight of all these flags reinvigorates my desire to travel!  Ahh, well, one day.  For today (Leap Day, as a matter of fact) I'll just look around.

Just on the other side of the parking lot is the "Sister Cities Pavilion" which has even more flags!  Here are the flags of the countries in which all of Rockford's Sister Cities are in.  Rockford's Sister Cities are:

• Brovary, Ukraine
• Changzhou, China
• Borgholm, Sweden 
• Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Tokmok, Kyrgystan
• Ferentino, Italy 
• Taszár, Hungary

Also, it was a beautiful day.

I'm a sundial!

Philippines and Poland

Standing in the peace plaza, looking across to the Sister Cities Garden