"Nothin' that Chicago doesn't have, for the most part," he says with a shrug. "Tough there is Coney Island--kind of a place for amusement parks. Made my friend ride on the Cyclone there once and he ended up getting sick. I keep wonderin' if he's still mad about it, but I can't remember a lot of times I had that much fun."

Kids like amusement parks, right? He hopes the subject might get her relax a bit, but he'll just have to see.