Touring The Park District

We woke up early this morning. Ariana & I wanted to walk around the parks south of the Navy Pier. We walked about four miles today. Breakfast was at a local Italian eatery near the John Hancock building. Ariana had sausage, eggs, & french toast. I had some hash browns and a bacon, egg, & cheese sandwich. Since I have been trying to watch what I eat I thought my breakfast wasn't diet friendly. That's why I'm glad I walked around the city to burn all those calories off. After breakfast we decided to do some geocaching in the parks. We saw some pretty cool sites and grabbed a lot of cool pictures. at 12:07pm we decided to grab some lunch at Subway and head off to the Chicago History Museum. The admission was $14.00 each but it was free today and we enjoyed our stay. The coolest thing we learned is that the Chicago fire in 1871 was caused by a cow tipping over a candle in a barn. We left the museum at 5:45pm and headed back to the hotel to relax for a bit. Before we went out to dinner we stopped at the bookstore around the corner. We head back home tomorrow. We enjoyed our short stay to Chicago and this was our third time coming here. We look forward to future trips to the windy city in the future.

Geocaching In The Windy City

Because of the time change I woke up at 6:00am. That is pretty early while i'm on vacation. The only problem is I couldn't go back to sleep so I got up threw some clothes on and went out to do some geocaching, It lets me exlpore new cities and I get a chance to walk around and get some excercise. While I was about .20 miles away from the hotel Ariana called me & asked if I coud come back to the hotel so we could go together. I was a little shocked because she usually sleeps in until 10:00am to 11:00am while were on vacation. I turned around to get her. We managed to find about 10 geocaches and walked about 3 miles. After we were done we started to watch the Browns game but turned it off when we relized it was a waste of time watching them. I bet either Mayfield High School or Hillsdale High School could beat them at this point. We grabbed the lap top and headed to the bookstore around the corner.

Halloween In Chicago

We landed in Chicago on time and as we got off the plane we managed to quickly grab the one bag we brought. We figured since were here for three days we don't need to bring a lot of stuff. Once we had everything we got to the CTA station to grab a three day pass. It ws $28.00 for the both of us and it took about 5 minutes for the machine to print the tickets. We took a nice train ride into the city and checked into the hotel about 12:15pm.

Since our room wasn't ready Ariana and I went for a walk on Michigan Ave. We checked out some shops like the Garmin store, Apple store, Macy's, , ect, ect. Ariana bought a white and back hat with some new gloves. Were always looking for a deal so she got 25% off. We continued to walk around and we saw a cool looking church to take some pictures in. saw a sign they were having a labyrinth walk at the Fourth Presbyterian Church. I participated where I walked a single path from the entrance to the center. They were playing soft music and had candles lit around the room. It was a nice experience. I have never done one before.

Once I was done wlking the path Ariana & I headed back to the hotel room for a nap. We traveled and walked around all day. We got up and got ready to head out to dinner. We decided to eat at the Cheesecake Factory but since were watching our weight we had to eat healthy and we passed on having any cheesecake. We settled in for the evening and watched some t.v. and we had to change the clocks back one hour due to daylight savings time. We had a nice time for the first day.

The Night Before Our Trip

I worked at the bank from 8:00am to 10:00pm. I only had about 2 1/2 hours off during the afternoon to come home and take Oreo and Recess to my mom's house so she could watch them Roxy is staying with us tonight because she would miss Ariana if we dropped her off too soon. When I got home at 10:21pm I was too tired to do anything. Ariana packed one bag because were only going to be gone for three days and were just going to check out some local attractions. We finally finished packing and I took Roxy out one final time before going to bed at 12:10am.
We need to be at the airport by 8:30am because our plane leaves at 9:35am. Flight time is about 1 hour and 10 minutes.