Chicago Recap

Gideon loves to use the camera...this was his shot of us in the hotel room..actually turned out pretty good! Good job Gid!

So...Chicago was a blast! As you can see in the above picture taken at Shedd....we just happened to sit in front of these people we didn't even know who had girls our same ages in the exact same dresses....HILARIOUS!!!! What are the chances of that! The same age girls even had the same color dress...though it could have been switched...SO FUNNY...the crowd kept asking us if we were all togethor as a group....we were like..."no...we just sat down and turned around and realized that we all have a Great sense of style :) "

So on Friday when we got there...we checked into the hotel and gave the kids a choice....Chicago style pizza...or Chicago style hotdogs.....they chose the hotdogs....Keith took us to Portillo's...now in all the millions of times I've been to Chi-town...eating hotdogs has not exactly been my priority so I've never tried one...but Keith said I "had to try it" so...me being the adventurous eater that I am sat down to a hotdog with tomato, pickle, relish, ketchup,mustard, onion and hot pepper on a poppy seed roll. It was actually really yummy....that is until I got to the hot pepper.....I will quote my husband when I asked him if the pepper was really hot or not..."It's hot...but not really that bad"......Famous last words....I bit into the hot pepper hotdog....The entire pepper was in my mouth...about 2 1/2 inches long....the minute I bit into it.....I lost all feeling in my tongue and started crying....I could not spit it out because we were surrounded by people and I had no napkin....so I choked it down...and spent the next 1/2 hour shoving bread, french fries...pop...anything into my mouth to cool it down....an hour after...my tongue was still burning! Thanks Keith!! I am never trusting my husband again...(he was laughing at me by the way as I struggles to keep the food in my stomach as it burned all the way down)....

So...he owed me big time and let me order up a nice big slice of cheesecake to the room later :):) Sat...we hit Shed and the AWESOME new aquatic show....Their new arena sits right on Lake MI...I mean right...like the water in the tank looks like it just keeps going out into the lake...The show was great...they let the penguins, hawks and even a sea lion (huge) come out into the audience....and people got to pet them!! Amazing...then they had a Beluga Whale show...so cool and a dolphin show..like seaworld....so great! We also saw the sharks which were swimming on our sides and above our heads in a almost 20 foot high tank that wrapped around the sides of the room and the ceiling...the sharks were huge and Lucy was really scared of them...she kept covering her head and telling me she wanted to leave....

We tried MI ave for a little bit on Sat but it was waaaayyyy too busy...more than I've ever seen it so we ordered take out Gino's pizza and headed for the hotel pool...which was on the top floor of the hotel...and was surrounded by John Hancock...the clocktower etc....BE-autiful! We had a blast!...even though the pool water was FREEZING!! Sunday we hit MI ave with the Kreigers (Keith's bosses family) while Keith and his boss did some competitive shopping and hit Navy Pier for the Sofa Show (the reason we were there)...we met the guys for lunch at The Rainforest Cafe and then hid out in the hotel until the guys were done with the show and took off for home. It was an awesome trip...very laid back and easy...great for the kids first real trip to the big city.

On another note Lucy met her new opthamologist yesterday and to make a long story short....she does not have Duane's Syndrome...but she is just cross eyed....crossed out rather than in....like her cousin Josh....treatment is the same....not much ....but it may get worse with age and we will cross that bridge when we get there....So that's a recap of our lives....busy but fun. Today is my first day that I don't have to be anywhere and I am loving it! I got a cold and am achy and it's so nice to sit around in my flannel pj's all day and just be comfty!! Hope everyone's doing well.....tune in next week...same blog time...same blog channel (that was for Gid)