Cruising with Caprio

Tonight my bride and I shall be cruising along Lake Michigan looking at Tall Ships, the ones with sails.

Whether the scheduling of Family PAC’s annual fund raising cruise was a fortuitous accident or planned all along, Executive Director Paul Caprio certainly has an excellent date—boarding begins at 6:15 on the Evening Star, southwest of Navy Pier, and the boat sails at 7.

The price is right--$160 per couple ($85 per person) for walk-ins.

After seeing Pirates of the Caribbean, I thought my son might want to go with us. He even built his first model of a sailing ship (with a little "Dad time") that he found in a shop at Navy Pier after we saw the excellent “Seuessical, The Musical” last month. (He knows all of the songs.)

Although conflicted, he decided to go to the McHenry County Fair instead.

And, what will one see besides the Tall Ships and honoree State Sen. and congressional candidate Peter Roskam?

Lots of conservatives whose names you know, but may not have ever met, plus others whose names you will know one of these days.