We looked at the calendar this weekend and realized we had a day and a half of free time in our schedule before Bri comes home, so we decided to do something fun and special with Leigha by herself. We came up with a list of a few cities we could easily get to, get around, and not have to travel for more than an hour or two by plane. We presented the list to Leigha and she chose, surprise surprise, Chicago. She loves the American Girl books and dolls (there's a huge store of them on the Mag Mile) and we've been there many times before. So this morning we found ourselves on a bright and early flight to the Windy City. We took the El to the loop and walked to Grant Park. Jason and Leigha haven't seen Buckingham Square Fountain yet. (I know, right?) Unbeknownst to us, the Taste of Chicago was going on in Grant Park. Cool! We didn't get anything there, but it was neat to see all the stuff. We had already planned (at Leigha's request) to have lunch at Giordano's. So we walked North from G. Park, snapped a few quick pics at The Bean (above) and had our awesome deep dish pizza that tastes like magic. We walked up Michigan Avenue to American Girl Place and Leigha indulged herself on staring at the dolls for a bit. She had some money burning a hole in her pocket, so she picked up a souvenier there, a box full of doll accessories that say 'American Girl Place, Chicago.' She has the twin baby dolls from their doll collection. (No, I'm not crazy or rich, I actually won them about three years ago in a drawing and gave them to her for Christmas that year.) After that we headed up to Oak Street Beach to splash in the chilly water of Lake Michigan. (seriously, that town has it all!) We continued into the Lincoln Park neighborhood for some coffee before turning around and walking back down to the loop to the El, and back to Midway for our flight home. I love that Chicago is only a 50 minute flight away for us. I plugged our walking route into the website that I use to log my milage while running and found out that we had walked about 5 1/2 miles today. Sweet!
Monday, June 29, 2009
Chica, let's go!
We looked at the calendar this weekend and realized we had a day and a half of free time in our schedule before Bri comes home, so we decided to do something fun and special with Leigha by herself. We came up with a list of a few cities we could easily get to, get around, and not have to travel for more than an hour or two by plane. We presented the list to Leigha and she chose, surprise surprise, Chicago. She loves the American Girl books and dolls (there's a huge store of them on the Mag Mile) and we've been there many times before. So this morning we found ourselves on a bright and early flight to the Windy City. We took the El to the loop and walked to Grant Park. Jason and Leigha haven't seen Buckingham Square Fountain yet. (I know, right?) Unbeknownst to us, the Taste of Chicago was going on in Grant Park. Cool! We didn't get anything there, but it was neat to see all the stuff. We had already planned (at Leigha's request) to have lunch at Giordano's. So we walked North from G. Park, snapped a few quick pics at The Bean (above) and had our awesome deep dish pizza that tastes like magic. We walked up Michigan Avenue to American Girl Place and Leigha indulged herself on staring at the dolls for a bit. She had some money burning a hole in her pocket, so she picked up a souvenier there, a box full of doll accessories that say 'American Girl Place, Chicago.' She has the twin baby dolls from their doll collection. (No, I'm not crazy or rich, I actually won them about three years ago in a drawing and gave them to her for Christmas that year.) After that we headed up to Oak Street Beach to splash in the chilly water of Lake Michigan. (seriously, that town has it all!) We continued into the Lincoln Park neighborhood for some coffee before turning around and walking back down to the loop to the El, and back to Midway for our flight home. I love that Chicago is only a 50 minute flight away for us. I plugged our walking route into the website that I use to log my milage while running and found out that we had walked about 5 1/2 miles today. Sweet!
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It is so funny to hear you talk about your daughter liking American Girl because I remember us being kids and playing with our dolls. We are not that old are we?
No way! Not *THAT* old....(right?) Yeah, sad story-they don't do Samantha dolls anymore. What's up with that? Totally lame because she was the most popular. Maybe mine is a collector's item now....
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