The Pace family attended their first Oktoberfest with the Villanuevas in Oak Park.  I have never been to this German festival before tonight.  The Oak Park version was more of a carnival than a traditional German festival.  The beer choices weren’t that impressive either.  Pretty standard American stuff except for St. Pauli Girl, which is pretty standard import.  However, the presence of the Villanuevas and some very fresh funnel cakes kept the night interesting.  The funnel cakes were so good and I assume sought after that there was a 3 funnel cake limit.  I did not see them enforce this, but I have a feeling it would have gotten pretty interesting if they had.  More pictures at http://www.akpacephotography.com.

Oktoberfest

9/6/08 – The first annual Dermatology golf outing and BBQ. Dr. Eilers won the round with a 41. A pretty good showing. Dr. Eilers also took closest to the pin on the first par 3, then on the sixth, I took longest drive, just a tad shy of 300, and Katie finished strong taking longest put on the last hole. Not a better way to spend a Saturday morning. I stole Tricia’s photos from golfing and posted those as well. After golfing we headed over to Katie’s house to have a little BBQ. The party started off nice with some good home cookin’ but rapidly degraded with a few beers into some pretty competitive rounds of corn hole. A good showing by residents and faculty. Video and photos are below.

8/24/08 – The Chicago triathlon was today. I finished with my neighbor in 2:40:07. This was 15 minutes faster than my time 2 years earlier. Needless to say, I was pretty impressed with us. We finished in the top third in our age group. Not bad. 734/4103 overall. Click on the photo to link to the full album.