Chicago May 2010

At the end of May David had to go to Chicago for some training for work.  We sweet talked his sister Marie into coming to stay with our kids so that I could go with him.  We left on a Sunday and got back the following Friday.  All we really got to do together the entire trip was go out to dinner after he got off work in the evenings.  The rest of the time I hung out alone.  I spent my time reading and shopping at the nearby mall.  Here are some pictures from our trip. 

This is the only picture we got of the two of us together the entire trip.

Gino's Chicago style pizza.  The guy that hosts Man vs. Food went here when he was in Chicago, so we figured it was a pretty good place to try a true Chicago pizza.  Underneath all this sauce there is a sausage patty that covers the entire pizza.  I think we were both full after one slice (maybe David ate two).

 We found this car in the parking lot near our hotel.  The plate is for an area in Japan that David lived in.

Double decker train that I rode to downtown Chicago (alone, might I add).  I had to take this picture because the girls really like watching Dinosaur train on PBS, so I thought they'd like to see the train that Mommy got to ride.

 Downtown Chicago.

 Union Station.

 Some nice men offered to take my picture because they saw I was alone.  They were obviously tourists, too, or I wouldn't have let them for fear that I'd never see my camera again.

 The only place I went to during my day adventure to downtown was the Aquarium, and that is where I got most of the pictures I took during the trip.

Baby beluga and mommy.

The pacific white-sided dolphins were beautiful.  They were the reason I braved going downtown alone.  I spent most of the day just watching them swim.

 View of Chicago coming out of the aquarium.  I'm not sure I'll be dumb enough to venture to the center of a big city alone like that again (stories I won't share on here for fear of scaring my mommy), but the aquarium was fun and this part of the city was beautiful with the buildings, green parks, and lake.  I wish David didn't have to work the entire trip so that he could have gone with me.