Chicago

We had a great time in Chicago with Liz and Alan. My camera was being really annoying and wasn't focusing right, so hopefully Liz got some good shots on her nice camera. We went up on Sunday morning after church. We had a relaxing day watching "Planet Earth"... which the boys LOVED... Jackson wanted to watch anything with fishes the entire trip. Liz made us a great dinner of salad and spaghetti and meatballs. YUM!!! We had a lot of fun catching up with them. On Monday morning we went with Alan to a bagel shop and had yummy bagel sandwiches. Alan liked it so much we went back on Tuesday morning :) After Liz got done with work around noon we all went to Portillo's which is famous for their Chicago style hot dogs. They were delicious. Jackson was a little thrown off by the poppy seeds on the bun, but Liz did her best to get them off... Jake's favorite part was the fries! Then we headed to Shedd's Aquarium in the city. It was the first time the boys have ever been to an aquarium and they loved it... more than the zoo I think. They just love fish! We didn't buy the bracelet which would have let us into the special exhibits, but we ended up going to some because they weren't marked and no one told us we couldn't go... so Luis did the math and said we saved about $90 by not buying those bracelets but seeing the stuff anyways! Oops. I think my favorite part, and the boys favorite were the beluga whales. They would swim right up to the glass and it would scare Jacob but then they would both get really excited. Luis' favorite was the penguins of course! There was this super cute penguin play place where they could put on costumes and the boys had so much fun. They didn't want to leave! The star fish were hiding so the boys couldn't reach them, but they got to play with the plastic ones :) After the aquarium we went to Gino's East for Chicago style pizza! SOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOD! Kaylee, tell Bryan that we ate dinner where Justin Bieber did... he signed a picture on the wall :) We went home and hung out all night! It was sad to say goodbye in the morning. The boys were pretty good on the ride there and back. Jacob had fun putting his snack, Wheat Thins, between his toes! I feel like I'm forgetting a bunch of stuff, but we really had a great time and can't wait to go back to the city again to do more touristy stuff... unfortunately Liz and Alan won't be there! They are moving to Charlotte and we will really miss them!