Chicago

I have been such a bad poster lately and I really do apologize. I have not been allowing myself to put anything recent up until I finish the highlights of the last four months. You will all just have to bear with me as I recap our activities. So, I will pick up where I left off, our trip to Illinois in July, JULY...I know, I'm terrible!

While we were visiting family in Illinois, we took a side trip up to Chicago with my parents. None of us had ever been there and I had wanted to go to the Art Institute for quite a while, so we were all pretty excitied- especially me! I mean, I don't get to go to the second largest museum in the United States everyday!

The first place we went after we checked into our hotel was the museum. I dragged my family all over that place, telling them all kinds of information that they probably didn't care to know. We definitely overstayed our welcome with the two crabby kids we had with us. Cohen even managed to pee all over the floor in the sculpture garden in the Art of the American West gallery!

We decided to take some pictures right outside of the museum. Everyone was fine with this plan except for Kent. There were many Kentless photos on our little trip.

Here was Kent's reaction when we tried to get him to take a family photo with us.

I even tried to make Kent jealous by showing him how much fun Cohen and I were having. He didn't care.

We made our way to Grant Park next along with a million other people because Taste of Chicago also happened to be going on. We made our way through a sea of people and took a few photos in front of the Buckingham Fountain.

Pete's main request of Chicago was real Chicago style deep dish pizza. We found a great place and after a VERY long, standing wait with two overtired children, we were able to sit down and eat. All were excited, especially Cohen and Pete.

After dinner, Pete and I went up the Willis Tower (Sears Tower) to look at the city from the new sky decks that opened the same weekend. Here is the view from the street.

This is the view of the city at night from the 108th floor.

And, this is the view from the sky deck looking down 108 stories. My knees feel weak again just looking at this picture. We were literally standing in a plexiglass box suspended from the side of the sky scraper!!!

We spent the next morning at Navy Pier. The weather and the view were beautiful.

It's always a happy day for Cohen.

So much money was spent riding this carousel. Kent loved it and Pete was able to get all of us in one shot. Pretty talented! It was a quick trip, but we definitely had a great time.