I had the time of my life! (ya gotta love a good Dirty Dancing reference).

Cool Milton quote on the Chicago Tribune Bldg.

Night time view from our dinner table, not too shabby! (now you see why we had dessert when we weren't hungry (aside from the fact that that bread pudding was AWESOME).

Dinner looks good, huh? i think I liked the Salmon and the brussel sprounts best.

Here we are! Happy 10 yrs to us!

Day time view from our dinner table, navy pier.

View from our "Executive Suite". Pretty, huh?

After walking Craig through the Tiffany & Co. store for me (and asking Craig if he wanted to have breakfast there, which he was really confused about), we went to check out the ipad at the apple store.

(directly above) the Picasso sculpture. They still don't know what it is supposed to be(armadillo/horse?), but are grateful to Picasso for the gift.

Trump Towers. I think Craig would have preferred to stay here!

Cool Aqua building designed by a woman to resemble water, cool, huh?

The Shedd Aquarium, supposedly Atlanta's aquarium is bigger, but I liked this one better.

Soldier's Field (where the Chicago Cubs and the White Sox play.

Planetarium (gotta take Taylor here).

Field History Museum (really wanna take the kids here).

Navy Pier

Chicago river on Michigan St.

Our Hotel "The Drake". LOVED IT!

Here are some pix of our trip to Chicago. Man, did we have fun! It was a trip to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. I have to say I absolutely LOVE being married to Craig. He's cute, he's funny, he's smart and so easy to live with. I can't think of anything that I don't love. He has an adorable way of being so straight-laced and traditional and conservative that I just love, but he's got a great sense of humor. He's thoughtful and kind and makes me feel safe. I remember when we were on our honeymoon how fun it was to just be away together. That still hasn't changed!

Thanks to the willingness of Craig's mom to watch the kids (at her mom's house in Chicago), we got to spend the night downtown. It was soooo much fun. I really love traveling and seeing new things! Thankfully for us we were blissfully unaware that Katie got sick that night until we got back on Saturday afternoon. We really are on house arrest. I'm trying to only remember the good times.

Anyhow, we stayed at the Drake hotel in downtown Chicago and even got a complimentary upgrade to an "executive suite" with a fabulous view of Lake Michigan!

We had dinner at the John Hancock, "Signature Room" and watched the sunset on the skyline. It was awesome. The food was fabulous. I'm still dreaming of those crunchy brussell sprouts. yum yum! I got the duck. Craig had the salmon. Then we had chocolate mousse and caramel apple bread pudding for dessert.

Then we walked the magnificent mile and came back to explore the hotel. It's so cool and historical!

The next morning we loved the breakfast buffet at the hotel. Almost as good as the breakfast at the Biltmore Inn. They even had little individual nutella's (I should have stolen some for Leisy).

Then we took the Hop on Hop off double decker bus tour, which included tix to the Sear's tower (now willis tower) and freebie popcorn from garrett's and freebie Hershey bars.

The Sear's tower was really cool. I couldn't believe what a big deal it was. For some reason, I didn't think it'd be such a big tourist attraction inside. It's almost like a museum and luckily for us the lines weren't long but it was obvious that they get EXTREMELY long.

After the tour we stopped in a couple stores on the Magnificent mile on our way back to our hotel and then drove back to Grandma Arends house.

I'm included TONS of pix for you all and for Hailey and Steve! So excited that they are moving to the windy city(which apparently is in reference to how loquacious Chicagoans are).