Mom, you’ll never guess where we are.

This is how my phone conversation began with Jake on Saturday a few hours after he left to go for a bike ride with his friend. They hadn’t decided where they were going to ride, just that they wanted to do around 50 miles. I took a couple wrong guesses and finally gave up. He was calling from Millenium Park in Chicago.

He was quite proud of himself, having ridden from our house to the city. They took the Prairie Path until it ends in Maywood, so my first (motherly) question was: how did you navigate through the Austin and Garfield Park neighborhoods? He said they just kept riding and didn’t stop til they got to the Loop.

My next question was, “Have you taken a selfie yet?” Here they are at the bean.