10 Year Anniversary in Chicago!

Not a flattering picture of me, but we didn't take many pictures in Chicago...

Our 10 year Anniversary hit this year on the day we drove to the beach, so Dennis and I decided we would hold off buying gifts and celebrating until we could celebrate good in Chicago in July.  We were thrilled that my parents offered to drive to Indy and watch the kids so we could get away.  We know that with 3 (soon to be 4 kids) a week long vacation is years away, so we were thrilled to be able to get away even for a weekend to celebrate.

My parents arrived on Wed. July 25th in the evening.  Thursday we took Grammy to the Children's Museum and then we all went to dinner for burgers at Bubs.  Dennis decided to try the burger challenge for the first time.  Which is a huge burger.  He actually asked them how many calories it was...who asks that???  They wouldn't say, so he chose the Elk burger to cut a ton of calories.  He succeeded easily and gets to have his picture on the wall.  After that we walked over for frozen yogurt and then once the kids were in bed we played Catan.

Friday morning after dropping Logan off at Daycare we left for our 3 hour drive to Chicago.  We had a great time eating lots of yummy food, walking a ton and seeing some museums.  Friday we made our first stop at pizza restaurant to get some Chicago deep dish pizza.  I am still partial to thin crust italian pizza, but it was delicious!  Then we walked to the Art Institute Museum.  It was very neat, but a little over our heads.  After walking back to the hotel (we were very sore by this point) to freshen up, we then went to a nice Italian dinner at a little outside seating bistro and then went to the Navy Pier and saw a Cirque type of show that was amazing.  Dennis also gave me my gift, a beautiful watch that I am very excited about.  I am getting him a poker table for our basement, so hopefully he enjoys that as much as I am enjoying the watch..

Saturday, after a yummy breakfast we went to the Museum of Science and Industry, which was very very cool.  I think the boys would have liked it as they had a lot of stuff for kids.  Dennis and I kept saying that it would be a fun trip to take the whole family to someday.  We randomly found a restaurant for lunch and it ended up being our favorite meal of the trip.  It was a small plates type of place and we had the most amazing bone marrow appetizer (I know sounds weird but I read it was highly recommended) and salads (we ate light because it was already later in the afternoon).  It was definitely unique food but full of flavor and we will definitely be back there if we go to Chicago again!  After that we did a little shopping and then cleaned up for dinner.  Dinner was at a nice gourmet restaurant.  We definitely ate well this trip!  We then went to a Comedy club in the Old Town area which was a lot of fun.

It was a great trip and we hope to go back the next time we can get away for a weekend (whenever that will be).

While we were away...My parents said the boys were great.  Evan especially got 5 stars my Mom said.  He was very sweet to Logan and played great with him.  My parents took them to a water park one day and to our pool the next.  It was a successful weekend for them too.