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Skyfall

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So, I'm finally coming back to finish the last two days of this blog while stuck in Chicago because of a winter storm at home--and of course, Chicago had a winter storm, too, and I left my coat in my car in Rochester, and I don't have any boots with me because I was in San Francisco--where I needed neither winter boots nor coat.  Anyway .... Here's a photo of our Murray's Bay neighborhood, where likely no one wears winter anything ever: That morning, we had a single destination: the Sky Tower .  There, our children--and surprisingly their Aunt Diana--would jump off the tower and fall over 720 feet, presumably not to their deaths.  The Sky Tower is also home to a hotel and casino, hence the spangly chandelier. No one cared about that, though.  It was all Sky Jump, all the time!  There's an age and weight requirement for the jump, so the kids were whisked off to be weighed like little pot roasts at market and the Sky Jump workers sharpied their weig