This summer we had the opportunity to go to Chicago, sure it was for Dan's job, but we still had fun. Getting from the plane to our hotel was a challenge. We had to get on a train, travel down a lot of stairs, get on bus, and then walk up a hill (only about a block long) to finally arrive at our hotel. Not so bad you say, except we had our luggage (2 suitcases), a stroller, and a car seat. I was luckily enough to have Dan's co-workers help with the stroller, but Dan had to juggle the two suitcases, the stairs were the hard part. I admit I got annoyed at some people behind us making some rude comments about how slow we were. I wanted to turn around and tell them we were more than willing to accept help, but if they didn't want to offer then please keep your thoughts to yourself. Too bad I am not gutsy enough to actually say anything. Once we got on the bus we ran into some every nice people who were more than willing to help those with strollers get on and off the bus, I was very grateful to see some kindness. Once we got to the hotel, everything was better. Our hotel was close to the Magnificent Mile, (a long strip of shopping), Navy Pier, the Bean, and a free zoo. Unfortunately it was too hot for Eli and I too explore for too long. We played in the pool and went for some short walks. We were able to go to a Cubs game. It was fun, but extremely hot. Here are some pictures from our week in Chicago.
This is Eli's first attempts at crawling. He would get up on all fours and then try to move and would eventually flatten out.
He was faster to do his army crawl, but he did try very hard to crawl.
We waited for Dan's coworkers so we could all go to the zoo together, unfortunately they took long with their other activities and we got to the zoo about 4:50, when we learned that the zoo was closing early that day because of a concert going on there. We had 10 minutes to see everything that we could.
The Bean
Sweaty boy at the Cub's game.
Poor little guy!
Note the "Feels Like" temperature.
Found a cool breeze at the top of the stadium.
1 comment:
That boy is always smiling. Nothing like hot and humid. Made you appreciate ID I'm sure.
Had to chuckle at all your bottled water. Sure sorry you don't like their's or our water. Just wish we could get the bottled water you like here.
Too bad the people were rude. Glad you did meet some friendlier one's. The rude ones missed meeting some pretty nice people.
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