Downtown Wheaton

Hey everyone! So today we have had about 15 students move in *YAY!!!!!*. The final count for today should be 17, but we haven't seen them all yet. We absolutely love it! It's part of Scott's job to try and connect with the students moving in...let them know he's their new GRA, get some paperwork from them, etc. Today was a RIDICULOUSLY hot day so we decided to make some yummy strawberry lemonade *recipe courtesy of Kell* and walk it around our buildings as students and their parents unloaded their things. I also made muffins and Scott and I will be delivering them tonight once he gets back from a meeting. :)

Last week, Scott and I took an evening to walk to downtown Wheaton. These are some of the pics that I got on the way. Here we're on the Prairie Path *one of the longest bike trails in the country - goes right through downtown Wheaton*. The second picture is a miniature golf course that is part of the apartment complex in the pictures.




The Metra runs right along downtown.

And here is the main Metra station in Wheaton. There's another one right across from our apartment, but this is the main station.

Tates Homemade Ice Cream - yummm-o! Wheaton is full of little specialty shops like this in the downtown area.

The popcorn guy sells freshly popped popcorn in this alley for I think 75 cents a bag. You can also buy candy by the piece in his alley. :) It really is an alley, someone just happened to put an *oning...auning...awning???? - good grief* you know what I mean - over it and it became a popcorn shop. It's as wide as the door and that's about it. :)

This little wine shop always seems to be full of people in the evening tasting different wines and looking very sophisticated. :)

And here is Suzette's Creperie...haven't been there yet, but it's definitely on my list. From what I can tell they have authentic French food...crepes, Croque Monsieurs, and such *yum!* They set up a booth at the French Market on Saturday mornings downtown and make fresh crepes for people and sell fresh croissants as people peruse around the market. :) OH...and apparently they have Jazz bands there fairly often in the evenings. AWESOME.

And speaking of Jazz...last Thursday night Scott and I checked out the Thursday night Wheaton Municipal Concert in Memorial Park. So supposedly it was a summer long thing...each Thursday night the city would bring in a different band/orchestra/some form of entertainment. We happened to catch the last one last Thursday night and the Wheaton Jazz Band played. We went with our new friend Keila. Keila invited us to church last Sunday and we had her over for dinner the following Thursday and decided to go check out the concert together. It was a good time. :)

And here is a silly video that I tried to take of the band...but it didn't turn out so well because we were talking in the background. *lol*

So, that was our week last week and our day today. :) Oh, we did visit a new church today...believe it or not I found and advert for it on Facebook and thought it looked like one worth checking out. So Scott, me, and our friend Hannah and her 19month old Cooper went this morning. We really enjoyed the service. The three of us got there about 40 minutes early though due to false advertising on their website...which wasn't a huge deal. There was this fantastic little coffee/breakfast shop across the street and we went over for a breakfast muffin and Scott and I were able to have a nice chat with Hannah. :) I think we'll definitely visit it again, we think it's really important to get involved with a church and we don't want to take too long looking around for one. Not sure exactly what we'll do next week - I do know that I'm super excited about Mom, Dad, & Shea coming to visit us for the weekend! YAY!!! :)

Now, it's time to go pass out some muffins! :)