chicago

my brother and his wife were going to be living in Chicago for the summer doing sales.

it didn't work out....

but we still went to "visit" anyways (even though they had already moved back to salt lake). My dad was really more excited about watching the cubbies play at Wrigley field and vising them was the perfect reason to do it!

the trip started out a little rough!

we flew out Saturday morning, but because of the bad rain storms at our destination our flight was delayed.... for 2 hours. once we got on the plane at 10:00 we sat on the plane for another 30 minutes still at the gate. not moving.

there was a family of 3 little babes all screaming and freaking out the entire 3 hour flight there. they FINALLY feel asleep when we landed. I am not ready to be a parent any time soon! also, we were on a little plane and guess what i learned... they don't have changing tables in the bathrooms. so if your baby drops a #2 bomb during the flight (3 times) you get to change them right there in your lap. lucky everyone else on the flight who gets to smell that bomb.

my poor darling sister was stuck sitting next to a boy that we refer to now as "stinky cheese man" {yes, you read that right} pretty sure it was a competition between this boy and poopy baby diaper who could stink up the plane the most. he had not showered for at least a month, or brushed his teeth. his pants were ripped apart on the back so his boxers were hanging out.  so much grease in his hair it could stick stand up on its own {think something about mary style} so we finally landed and got fresh non stink air and it took us an hour to get from the airport to our hotel downtown because of the traffic. 

by the time we checked in were were so pooped we decided just to shower and go to dinner. call it a day. our hotel sent us to a fab little Italian place called Trattoria No. 10 

best butternut and acorn squash ravioli. yum!

after dinner everyone else went to bed. catherine, whitney, and i went to da club and got crazy. apparently they don't get busy until 1am, so since it was 10pm we were the only ones there which made it fun. but by the time people started to show up we were so tired we came home and went to bed.

the next morning we woke up bright and early from the cubs game!

my dad is a huge fan so he wanted to go early and eat by the field and just be part of the pregame excitement. it was pouring rain so we got soaked on our walk to the train.

we had the best seats for the game, right behind home plate!

 cubs win!

That night for dinner we went to Harry Carays

 He was known for his giant black frames and singing "take me out to the ball game" during the 7th stretch.

 and randomly on our walk home we came across a giant statue of marilyn monroe in her famous pose. nice.

overall it ended up being a really fun trip. we didn't get to eat a Dikas with mike, dad was sad about that, go to the zoo or navy pier. but it was great and a very much needed vaca. we can do all that next time!

Thanks dad!