something fishy
Saturday night, 
helloheather and I left Nate in the care of one of his sets of grandparents and then we drove in the ice and snow and rain and slush and traffic to the company Christmas party at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.
Said traffic put us there too late to fully enjoy the aquarium before it was time for dinner. However, unlike a standard visit to the Shedd, there were no busloads of school kids, no strollers blocking the walkways, and far fewer people unable (or unwilling) to turn the flash off on their camera.
What was also missing, due to it being night and all, was anything resembling an appropriate amount of light /for/ photography. If only I had brought my tripod, I could have set up some really amazing long-exposure shots. Ah, well, they probably would have prohibited it.
We didn't get to sit around the Caribbean Reef (those seats were snapped up a long time before we got there) but we did sit in one of the galleries (Rivers of the World). All in all, a nice time.