chicago

A few quick stories and a few pictures from our trip!





My grandma was put in the hospital a couple days before we flew out to Chicago. That was a bummer, because we didn't get to see her new apartment in the assisted living place she's in, and we didn't get to take her outside. :( We did visit her every day we were in Chicago though, which was good. It's been too long since we've seen her! I'm glad we were able to visit every day.


We traveled most of Tuesday. Our hotel was in the greatest location EVER- right downtown, a block off Michigan Avenue! We walked around Tuesday afternoon/evening and everything we wanted to eat was right there. :)





Wednesday we got up and went to the aquarium. It was a rainy day, and we got to the aquarium and about died at the size of the line. It was about a mile long, no joke. Luckily, they had an "accessible line" for strollers and wheelchairs, and boy, am I glad we brought the stroller that day. Even waiting in that much shorter line, it took us an hour to get in the aquarium! We didn't mind though, after we got to the ticket counter. It was going to cost us about $85 for the three of us to get in, but Josh asked if they had an educator discount and showed our teacher ID cards and all THREE of us got in for FREE! I was shocked. And very glad, because the aquarium was soooo crowded that day that I felt we didn't get $85 out of it! We had fun while we were there though. Brecken loves aquariums.

Thursday was a super fun day. We went to the children's museum! We were able to walk there from our hotel, and it only took about a half hour. Brecken had a blast while we were there. They had the most amazing rooms- a "move!" room where you could climb and rock and balance and feel and touch and run and jump. It was an occupational therapist's dream room! There was a water room where all you did was play with water items, a room to dig for dinosaur bones, an inventing room, an area to plaly checkers, bowl, make things out of clay, anything you could imagine. A few of the rooms were closed due to a school field trip occupying them, but we had PLENTY to see still!

Thursday night, we met up with my cousin Catie and went to a Bulls game! I've never been to an NBA game before. We had a great time! Thank you, Uncle Pudge, for letting us have your company's season tickets for the night! We had a great time!!! Catie, it was so great to see you!

Brecken cheering hard:

#16 is a Cheyenne East graduate!

Friday morning, Brecken woke up and the first thing he said was "What do we get to do today?" :) We didn't have anything too exciting planned, but we took him to lunch at the Rainforest Cafe and just did sightseeing and shopping all day.

Saturday was GORGEOUS outside! Our plane didn't leave until the evening so we packed up the car and took off on foot. We walked to the other end of Michigan Avenue, across the Chicago River, and up to Millennium Park.

Our reflection in the "Bean" sculpture- I had to take quite a few pictures to get us in the frame! :)

It was so nice out that we got Subway and ate a picnic outside at the park! We haven't been able to do that since last summer, so what a nice treat! Then we took our time walking back to the car to get to the airport. We had a great trip, and hopefully it won't be so long before we can go again!