Parent's Day Off

Scott and I spent the weekend in Chicago. We've been to the suburbs several times in recent years, but it's been at least four years since we've spent time on Michigan Avenue drinking, eating, and shopping (in no particular order) like adults. We were due! And we made it count!

We rolled into the city around 3:30 on Friday and had our "first dinner" at The Purple Pig. Then we shopped. We shopped so efficiently that the credit card company assumed our cards had been stolen and locked our account. One call to the fraud department and we were back in business. I was laughing and Scott was shaking his head at this point. We decided to take a break from shopping and had a "second dinner" at Grand Lux Cafe. We slept in until 8 the next morning and enjoyed coffee while it was still hot then took the 10 a.m. Chicago River Architecture Tour.


Pizza is one of my favorite foods so it was no big deal to wait 30 minutes in line and another 45 minutes for my Gino's pizza to cook. Plus, we weren't in a hurry and weren't juggling kids!


Some of our friends from the burbs joined us for dinner at Texas de Brazil. Such fun to catch up with great friends!



We had a great time. Thanks to Grandma Joan and Papa Jake for managing the girls while we were off playing. When can we do it again??