"My kind of town..."

"...Chicago is."

On Saturday morning, early, {as in, we picked Bobbi up at 4:00 a.m. at her house} Bobbi, Jayme and I flew to Chicago for a long weekend. 

{Way back in the early spring Bobbi had seen a special on tickets for Southwest - GOOD DEAL} and we got an amazing deal at Best Western River North. Anyway...we got in to Chicago Midway Airport at 8:15 caught the Orange line to downtown, walked over to BWRN and Wallace, the concierge, put our bags in safe keeping for us. {by the way, he has a blog on the BWRN website called "Where's Wallace?" and he goes around to places in Chicago and tells about them. It's great.} Then we said we needed breakfast and he recommended "EGGSPERIENCE", a new place in town, just a few blocks from the hotel. It was amazing! 

[I believe right after I took this picture I got a "Stop, Mom" and it was only 9:30 in the morning!]

Very inexpensive and tons of food. Bobbi's Egg White omelet was the size of a dinner plate and at least 2 inches high.

 Jayme's veggie one was the size of a Nerf football.

I had two eggs and ham {not green} and some amazing pancakes and fresh fruit. 

So after not finishing all of that,

 we left and began our walk of the Magnificent Mile. Tons of shops and people [TONS] and things to see. 

[another "MOM, stop!"]

At 3:30 we went back to the hotel and watched a little Husker football and rested from our early morning. After a bit we went out again and then had supper at Rainforest Cafe.

We walked down to the Wrigley Building and got on a boat to take a sunset/fireworks lake cruise.

 Bobbi and Jayme are in this picture. See if you can find them..

 Here we are on the boat.

We were glad we bundled up. It got rather chilly out on the water.

 City skyline.

 Not the greatest but a firework shot.

 Navy Pier

 It was just amazing weather all day. Cool and sunny.

The cruise ended at about 10:00. We walked back to the hotel and crashed. It had been a long full day.

Sunday we got up later 

["Seriously!"]

and wandered down to Starbucks to get some coffee and a little something to eat. We shopped around some more, went to a few stores we hadn't gone to, then met up with a friend, Lindsey, for lunch at Grand Lux Cafe. Oh my, if you ever get a chance. Go. It is so good. We had a hilarious time laughing and talking. The couple next to us was not having such a good time. They fought and argued the entire time and made us laugh even harder. It was rainy and cool all day Sunday. But toward evening it stopped and we headed out to eat pizza at Giordano's. 

We were such party animals that we went back to the hotel after our late supper and watched a little TV and went to bed. 

Monday we still had until late afternoon before our flight so we got coffee and headed out to Navy Pier. On the way there we saw that we could take a water taxi for $4 so we hopped on.

While out there Bobbi took Jayme and I on the Ferris Wheel ride. [250 feet in the air] I will admit to being very uncomfortable with being that high. Love having my feet on the ground. 8 minutes but the view was amazing! So...trade off.

 We took the water taxi back up to Michigan Ave. and went to Big Bowl for lunch.

After that we still had almost 3 hours before we needed to head to the train to go to the airport so we walked to the lake and spent some time there. The weather was cloudy but warm. 

We had a wonderful time. We were tired by the time we reached the airport but it was worth it. 

Back home to real life.