Home from Chicago

**Edited** Still waiting for my photos. Will add them as soon as I get them.

I returned home from Chicago @ 12:30 this morning & didn't get into bed until 1am...didn't actually fall asleep until 2 am. It was awesome to sleep in my own bed & wake up to find my boys thrilled to see me. Carter has told me a dozen times today that he is SO glad that I came home...made me feel loved & special. Yesterday was another long but fun day. On Sunday evening after the show ended, we headed to downtown Chicago. Paula's sister & daughter drove down to Midway to meet up with us & play. Margie (Paula's niece)was a fabulous tour guide. She knew her way around town & was able to point out historic spots & all of the land marks. I don't have a ton of photos to post today (ok maybe I do). Brandi was kind enough to upload all of my photos to her computer @ the end of each day so I could clear my card. The card that held about 400 photos a day -LOL! I only had one memory card with me. I will add photos as I receive them, I think I have a photo for each item listed below!

So with out telling a story for every little thing we did/experienced, I thought I would do a CHICAGO WAS & fill it in with all of my favorite things/memories. Here we go!

CHICAGO WAS:

-CHA - heaven for any scrapbooker or paper crafter.

-inspiring

-meeting scrapbookers who's product lines & designs inspire me

-humid & sticky

-Paula @ the wheel-hydroplaning in the rain-eeekkkkkk!

-late nights,early mornings = lack of sleep.

-cruising in the rented PT cruiser-a.k.a. gangster car

-impatient drivers who honk their horns at anyone & anything .

-Scrapbook supplies galore

-being serenaded @ the Mexican restaurant, he even made up a Green Tangerines song for us! It was hilarious!

-is the most beautiful skyline I have ever seen

-riding the L train into downtown Chicago

- all of the cool buildings

-the Navy Pier

-deep dish pizza(Chicago style) @ Gino's East in downtown. this restaurant had cool graffiti everywhere.

-riding the ginormous Ferris wheel @ Navy Pier

-tons of photo opps.

-the Windy City

-eating a Chicago Dog in Chicago (filled the hot dog quota for the next 10 years)

-seeing where Oprah lives(from a distance)

-yellow taxi's in downtown.


the River walk

-the magnificent mile-so many shops, so little time.

-Millennial park

-the BEAN in millennial park-very cool! It is a HUGE mirror. I took that picture, so what you see in the bean.mirror is what was behind me. So very cool

the water park in Millennial park- my boys would have loved it.

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hunting for White Sox shirts for my boys

100's upon 100's of photos being taken.

the orange FISKARS underwear-thanks for the giggle Kelly

was time to create stronger frienships with Kelly, Paula, & Brandi-love those girls!

having flat hair for 5 days straight

filled with great architect-simply beautiful

living in my GT shirts for 4 days-LOL

missing my boys...small & BIG

a fabulous get away.

Michigan Avenue

filled with laughter & smiles

catching up with old friends

full of color & life

an amazing experience I will NEVER forget(thank you Paula, Kelly, & Brandi)

missing my boys like crazy & seeing their faces first thing this morning upon waking up!

IT WAS AWESOME!