Trip to Chicago

Friday afternoon we headed to Chicago. Eric got off a little early from work - he is definitely ready to be done with his job. If we could leave to Seattle now we would. sigh. But back to our fun weekend. We went down with our friends Kory and AnaLee, we got a hotel by the temple and planned on switching off baby duties so we each could go to the temple.

Since Eric had never gone swimming with Q we took our suits and as soon as we checked in we headed to the indoor pool.

We left his floating thing at home, so we just held him while we played. The water was kind of warm. I would have liked it to be warmer. When we were done Q past out as soon as we put his PJ's on. It was cute.

On Saturday we went to the temple, then decided to take the train into downtown Chicago. It is CRAZY expensive to park so we thought we were being really smart and saving money.

AnaLee and AnsLee waiting for the train

 

Kory and AnaLee told us about this great pizza place so he went and got some for the train ride. It was AMAZING.

 

 

I didn't take any pictures on the train because I was busy eating a monster piece of pizza and Q was acting up :( But i didn't take this gorgeous shot of downtown! We walked the Magnificent Mile, but then got tired of walking and just headed to Nordstrom so AnsLee could get a balloon. Then we went to The Grand Lux. One of my favorite restraunts! Kory and AnaLee intruduced us to their Beignets.

picture from google

The kids happy not to be in strollers

 Don't they look amazing? They taste as good as they look. This isn't my picture- I didn't think of taking a picture until they were all gone. After dinner we realized that we had to catch the train, otherwise we would be stuck in Chicago for another 2 hours and both kids were ready to be done with their strollers. So we had about a 1.5 miles to walk in about 45 minutes. AnaLee is 6 months pregnant, so we were not walking that fast. At one point Eric and Kory took off running. It was the funniest thing EVER! Namely Kory. He had to bend over a ton for their stroller and he had the diaper bag on his back and it was all the way up. I tried to take a picture to capture how funny it was, sadly it doesn't do it justice.

 

Kory and Eric said that the kids loved it. AnsLee was waving at everyone as they ran by and Q just sat back and enjoyed the ride. 

Well while they were running AnaLee and I were just walking enjoying the great weather and the company. After awhile we knew that we were not going to make the train but hopefully the guys would and one of them would get a car and come back into the city for us. Once we got to the train station we got the news that the guys did not make the train. They missed it by 4 minutes. 

SO we took a cab to our cars. So much for saving money :)

In the Cab - Q was asleep as soon as I picked him up

The guys were exhausted- AnsLee did manage to keep her balloon after all the running

 Even though everyone is recovering today from all the walking/running it was still fun and next time we do a trip we will have better plans. Cant wait!