We spent three amazing days in the beautiful city of Chicago! We had a long list of everything we wanted to see and do! We spent Saturday night 30 minutes outside the city in Itasca. The kids swam for a bit then we went to bed early so we could hit the city early! We checked our bags and parked the car at our hotel downtown and took off for Michigan Avenue at 10am Sunday morning!
Michigan avenue was so beautiful. The mix of high end stores with old architecture was so neat.
The Wrigley building
First stop - Fannie May chocolates! A friend of Jeff's told him it's one of the things he misses about living in Chicago so we grabbed him (and us) a box.
The kids had a hard time choosing! They were not disappointed :-)
Second stop - Millennium Park!
We walked through the park over to Maggie Daley Park.
It was a really neat urban park! The kids ran around and played for an hour.
We walked over to Crown Fountain to cool off and have lunch...
Checking out the L Train at lunch...
Shopping on Magnificent Mile! Disney store.....
Then onto American Girl...
Me and my girl walking down Michigan Ave
A very happy Ava! She named her new doll Angela :)
We checked out a few other places in the water tower place...
Then we headed back to the hotel for some afternoon swimming
We walked a few blocks over to Giordano's for some Chicago deep dish. It was really good pizza!
We ended the day at Oak Street Beach after dinner. We walked and played and just enjoyed the beautiful way Lake Michigan borders the city.
Photo bombed by the lifeguard! Ha!
It was the perfect ending to our first day in Chicago! We walked back to our hotel for the night to rest up for the next day.
Two tired girls ready for bed :)
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