jedi pier

last time there was a new star wars movie (the skywalker ones) we went with miranda and levi to navy pier in chicago to see it.  figuring we would make it a tradition, we made plans with the two of them to do it again when last jedi came out.
well, there was a little big of a change in miranda and levi's life, so it ended up being miranda and her friend leanne instead...  we went anyway and had a nice time.  the visit to navy pier was unfortunately a bit underwhelming.  the place itself is really cool, but it seems like we picked the exact wrong time to go there- about 3/4ths of the place was under construction, so there was hardly anything to do there!  about the only places that were open on the pier were a book store and mcdonalds...  fortunately the movie theater was up and running, so we at least got to do the thing we drove two hours to see!
the movie itself was a ton of fun, and really cool in the huge 3-D imax screen, so that helped alleviate some of the disappointment...
(good grief, just take a moment and appreciate how beautiful diana is.  sometimes it takes seeing her in photos like this for me to remember, but i always do remember!)