Chicaco Baby!

As I Said in my last post Luke and I were able to go to Chicago for five days in August without any kiddos. Eric and Ashlie invited us last minute to go with them since they travel doing scrapbook conventions. They needed another person to help out and so the company paid for my flight, hotel, food, etc. all we had to do was buy Lukes ticket. We left on a Wed. from Vegas and when we were in the Phoenix airport switching planes my mom called and said Janeece had the baby. On the day I left! She had her third adorable little boy named Mckay. Our flight got in late so by the time the boys picked out a rental car (they picked a black mustang) and found our hotel we crashed. We spent the first day walking and hanging out in downtown Chicago which can I say was absolutely AMAZING! I fell in love with it immediately. We went to millenium park to see The Bean and other sculptures and from there we walked and walked and walked through the city it seemed like every turn we took there was something else we wanted to see. We found an amazing chicago style pizza place called Bella Bacinas which was right by the river on Wacker. It was a beautiful day so we sat out front under the umbrellas right on the main road. The food was unbelievable, our waiter and his brooklyn accent was so fun and friendly and it was cool to soak in the excitement of the city. He told us to go to the Bar at the top of the John Hancock building for an amazing view of the city so we walked all the way checking out shops, the river, and the giant marilyn monroe statue. The whole city seemed like a giant mall with huge futuristic shops along the entire bottom with skyscrapers on top. We rode to the ninety fifth floor of the Hancock building (instead of paying to go to the top of sears tower) and decided not to go into the bar so me and Ashlie went to the restroom to find that there were huge windows with the view we had hoped for. From there it was way close to walk up the coast on Lake Shore Drive and up the river walk at sunset. After walking so long we had to hit the jacuzzi that night. The next two days we worked in the booth at the convention and did fun things at night. on Friday night we ate at a yummy Indian restaurant and in trying to find frozen yogurt came across the cutest downtown area of a small town where they were having a car show with music and dancing so we just pulled over and hung out there, it was perfect weather and it was cool to just chill. Saturday night we went to dinner and after being duped the night before trying to find fireflies we went to a park to play around and find some, (Luke hadn't seen them so we were determined.) We just got up Sunday and headed for home. I was really missing my kids by then. Chicago was a beautiful city and it was such a fun experience especially to be with Eric and Ashlie who we always have a blast with. Thanks you guys!

Our last night at a cute park searching for fireflies. We found some but found more mosquitos. Still fun.

Friday night looking for frozen Yogurt we found a car show in the middle of a blocked off downtown area with people hanging out and dancing in the street. Amazing!

Hanging out on the riverwalk at sunset. It was so so beautiful.

Eric and Ashlie were a blast!

This is the view from the ladies bathroom in Hancock tower. You could see EVERYTHING.

Seriously the best pizza i've ever had.

Bella Bacinos in downtown

Historic Chicaco Theater

This is the view from underneith The Bean. So so cool.

The Bean and fountain in Millenium Park


The Boys were so giddy about the car and every chance they got in a big open spot we all bailed out while one person spun brodies. It was pretty fun/scary.