Santa (aka Rob) surprised me and had planned a trip for us to go to Chicago in March. This was such a much needed trip minus kiddos. Unfortunately, I had come down with another sinus infection before we left but made sure I got some antibiotics and we were set to go. Thanks to Mimi & Pops who came to our house to watch the girls. Ansley could have cared-less that we were leaving, she was super excited to have Mimi & Pops for a couple of days.
We had a wonderful trip! I had never been to Chicago before so I was excited to see everything I had heard about. The first night, we went to Second City, it was AWESOME! I highly recommend going if you go to Chicago. It is a comedy club where a lot of the SNL people have come from. We laughed non-stop for almost 3 hours. Afterwards we were going to try to find a near by club one of our friend's had mentioned but with no luck we decided to just head back to our hotel.
We went site-seeing one day, and walked all over. It actually wasn't too cold and with the sun shining, it was comfortable. We started out walking up to Millenium Park and saw "The Bean". Rob had never heard of it before, it was beautiful and I loved how you could see the Chicago skyline in it. We then headed over to the Willis Tower (use to be the Sears Tower) which was amazing! Definitely high up, but the views were so worth it, absolutely breath-taking! After the Willis Tower we ate at Lou Malnitis http://www.loumalnatis.com/, one of the best deep dish pizza restaurants. I never thought I would be able to finish one of those pizzas, but I didn't disappoint, it was so yummy!
After we were nice and full from lunch, we walked over to Grant Park, and went to the aquarium. It was a nice aquarium but I have to admit, it has nothing on the Atlanta Aquarium. Once we finished with the aquarium we walked back to the hotel. We had dinner plans with some of college friends.
For dinner we went to a great Mexican restaurant, Mercaditos http://www.mercaditorestaurants.com/, and met up with Max Weighandt, and his beautiful bride, Leslie, and Drew Moore (Drew & Max were Sigma Chi's with Rob). We had a great time catching up, eating great food, and enjoying some Margaritas (I had way too many!).
Unfortunately, I was struggling the next day which I was upset about because this was the day we were going to go shopping down Michigan Avenue. It was also the big St. Patrick's Day parade and where they dye the river green. So, I got some Starbucks, a bagel and fought through it! Or at least I tried. It was very cold this day, but we went to check out the green river, and they aren't kidding when they say it is green, it is LIME GREEN! It was cool to see. Afterwards, we started our shopping day. This is huge for Rob to let me shop all day, he does not like shopping at all, but he was a trooper. We also met up with Uncle Boo at a bar, he was also in town for the St. Patrick's Day festivities....Later that night we went to another great restaurant recommended to us by our friends, Sunda http://www.sundachicago.com/. It was a very swanky sushi restaurant! We had a great time on our last night.
Needless to say, we had an amazing trip! It went by really fast, but we definitely want to go back again when it is a little warmer. It is such a great city! Definitely tops my list of favorite city's...
2 comments:
LOVE the pics...I have always wanted to go there! May have to be our next trip! :) So glad you got Rob and Jen time!
Chicago looks like so much fun!!! LOVE all the pics. Can't believe you stood out on that clear glass -- u couldn't pay me to do that! Glad you guys had a great time and got to visit with some friends while you were there.
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