Let the road trip begin! There's nothing like a good road trip to feel like it's Summer and you are young again! Fortunately my sister and 2 of my girlfriends had the perfect roadtrip planned out for us! CHICAGO!! We left Wednesday and arrived in the early evening in Pontiac Michigan for some good old fashioned outlet shopping and then dinner at Olive Garden (oh I forgot to mention - this trip was all about where we ate!). Thursday we were up, back to the outlet mall for a bit more shopping and then we finished the drive to Chicago! We arrived early evening, checked into our hotel, freshened up and headed for our dinner reservation at Brazzaz. Mmmmm yummy Brazilian steakhouse! They come around with 16 different types of meat on swords and it is so delicious!! Friday after a gaunt down to Navy Piere we did an architectual tour which was very interesting. In 1871, 10km of Chicago was destroyed in a massive fire which then led them to completely re-plan and rebuild the city. As well, since Chicago has a river that runs through it, it's very unique to tour the city by boat. In the afternoon, we walked along the Magnificient mile and ended up in the John Hancock centre for some chocolate martini's and a beautiful view of the city! Dinner was Chicago pizza (where else?) at Giordano's. Delicious doesn't even describe how amazing the pizza is there! With no room left to eat anything we headed to Garrett's to pick up some popcorn and back to our hotel to recover from our adventures! Sunday was a very exciting day for me (so exciting that I forgot the 1 hour time change and was up at 6:30 - oops, sorry girls!) since we were going to the Shedd Aquarium. We took the CTA (subway) to the other end of the city were the aquarium is and had breakfast at 11th Street Diner were I ate some of the best french toast of my life! Once we had about all the carbs we could manage we walked across the park to the Aquarium. Somehow we bypassed the longest lineup I've probably ever seen to get into anywhere and before I knew it, I was in viewing all the fishies! Shedd Aquarium is really nice and what I actually really thought was cool is they have a Saw Fish. It was about 5 feet long and as the name describes, has a saw-like nose. It's very very cool. There was also a special exhibit on Jelly Fish. If you know my history with these guys they aren't my favorite but they put them in these lighted tanks and I have to admit they are beautiful! After being at the Aquarium for hours we headed for a well-deserved dinner at Weber Grill. Sunday we were up bright and early and after some unexpected issues with our car, we were driving away from Chicago. We stopped first at the Cloud Gate (aka "The Bean") and Milliennium park and took some pictures and then before we knew it we were saying goodbye to Illinois. We arrived home late Sunday night after a fabulous weekend in Chicago! Thanks girls - love you all!
