To Chicago and Back: An Extended Weekend

This is going to be a long one.... Ready for it?!

Dan and I (and Mila) just got back from a long weekend in Chicago. We took Thursday and Friday off work, and headed out after I got off on Wednesday.

We left to Chicago at 4 p.m.; it took about ten and a half hours to get there from Huron. It was 2:30 a.m. on Thursday when we finally arrived there, and we went straight to bed. We slept in a little, because we had a big day ahead of us.

Thursday:

Dan was ready for the Cubs game!

On the train, heading to Wrigley Field.

Debbie and Bobby

We found out after the game that we were on TV--close up. Yikes!

The Cubs lost, after a suspenseful 9th inning.

  Friday:

We walked around the neighborhood on Friday. It was a beautiful day.

It was nice to relax for the day....

The duck was kind of irritated that we were disturbing its alone time.

 Saturday:

Of course, we had to spend at least one day downtown. We walked all the way from Union Station to Navy Pier. We took LOTS of breaks on the way there! It was a WARM day.

This is kind of a cool sculptural bridge that we checked out.

Okay, we had to stop for some ice cream along the way.

Lots and lots of boats.... We basically walked to the end of Navy Pier, ate lunch, and walked back to the train station.

We didn't ride on the huge ferris wheel this time, but we have both been on it before.

This is a cool waterfall--and the mist felt great on our walk back.

Ahhhhh!

 Sunday:

We bought Mila a treat on the way back--a bagel bone--and got breakfast for ourselves before heading back to South Dakota. (Poor Loki didn't get anything.)

Okay, so I didn't take a lot of pictures during this trip, but I have photos of almost everything there is to see from previous trips. Well, maybe not quite--but we had so little time, I didn't want to spend it taking pictures of everything.

It was a short trip, but it was enough to get away from work for a few days and get away for the long weekend. We weren't able to do some of the things we wanted to do, such as go to the aquarium and planetarium, since they were closed due to protesters, but I'm sure there will be other opportunities to do those things.

Now, it's back to reality for us...work.

A Blogger's Note

It has been an uneventful week, I'm happy to say. And, boy, has it flown! That's a good thing...before you know it, we will be in Chicago. So excited!!

I've been meaning to mention this for a long time now, but keep forgetting--for anyone without a google account who has tried to comment in the past, I have changed the settings so non-members can also comment. Yes, comments are welcome and appreciated on our blog, but not required. ;)

(And don't bother with the spam, because it will be deleted immediately.)

I actually have nothing else to say right now, so I'll keep it short. Have a good night and a better weekend!

A "Girls Weekend" in South Dakota

You could say we had a quick, but eventful, weekend. My sisters--all four of them--made the trip to Huron to help me make our wedding invitations....

I'd been working on the invites for a couple months: printing, cutting, embossing, etc. I had everything ready to go when they got here, so all we needed to do was assemble everything.

Making the preparations: Every time I stood up, Loki stole my chair.

They didn't leave until after 11:00 p.m., planning to drive through the night. They were supposed to be here at about 5:30 a.m. About 45 minutes out of Huron, they hit a deer--with Dawn and Jake's brand new Subaru. They are VERY lucky they weren't driving a lighter car; if they had gone off the road, they would have rolled down a rocky hill into the water. On either side of the road.

The damage: Looks very similar to my old Lumina.

Remember how Dawn's old car broke down the last time they came to Huron? Yeah... Could it be a coincidence? Or something deeper? Maybe it just means we need to get out of SD.

It took a couple hours to get a tow truck, and I got there at about 7:00 to pick up Caitlin and Karissa. Dawn and Trisha rode in the truck to Watertown so they could get a loaner car. Because they were driving on little to no sleep, I worried until they got here at 10 a.m.

Eventually we got around to the invitations. There were 150 invites, plus the same number of reception cards, driving directions and lots of rhinestones, ribbons, address labels and stamps to apply.

Karissa, Dawn, Trisha, Caitlin

We had to wrap it up before finishing the ribbons; everything else was done, and there is only one tube of ribbon glue. Turns out that regular glue shows through ribbon and doesn't stick very well. So, I will keep busy this month with gluing ribbon and stuffing envelopes. Besides that, I only need to address the envelopes and buy postage.

I would say we had fun, despite the little...setback. We walked to Subway for ice cream, we grilled...and just lazed around, trying to catch up on lost sleep.

The girls

The only problem when someone visits is watching our company drive away, especially after such a short weekend. It always feels so empty here.