Chicago

For our last celebration with Leslee we visited Chicago. This is such a fun city and of course it was the perfect day and not too cold. Earlier that week we actually went to Chicago to pick up Leslee. It was a miserable drive full of tolls and road construction. However, we did a little more research before the next trip and it turned out to be so much fun. Jordan and I would love to go back another day to see more... (possibly without Madison :) )

We started our trip by starting over by the airport. We wanted to end up back there that night because we were staying the night and then taking Leslee to the airport early that next morning. We decided to brave public transportation! We bought a day pass and it ended up being perfect. It would have been a lot more expensive to try to park downtown, plus walking everywhere and knowing we would have to walk back to our car would have been exhausting. We took the subway into the city and then took a couple of buses when we needed to go anywhere else. We never waited more then a minute for a bus. It was a good thing we had Leslee with us too. She is a pro at public transportation and got Jordan and I around efficiently.

At Navy Pier with some of the Chicago Skyline in the background

We started the day with American Girl Place!!!!!! This has been a dream of Leslee's and I since we were little kids. We made reservations and had lunch with our dolls that Leslee brought up.We have vintage dolls that have been discontinued. We felt pretty special. Of course we explored the store a bit. The place didn't disappoint. Lunch was pricey, but worth the experience.

Lunch time with Felicity

The bathrooms even had little hangers for the dolls. These people think of everything!

Next we walked around Navy Pier. Jordan loved the ships!

I tried to hide my belly..... It didn't work too well.

We then explored Millennium Park. The bean was crowded, but pretty cool. There was also an intense park with awesome slides. I even went down one and it was super crazy.

We finished the day up at a deep dish pizza place. The week before when we picked up Leslee we tried Lou Malnati's while this week we tried Giordano's. To be honest, Lou Malnati's was the best!! The sauce seemed fresher and the crust was cooked to perfection!!!