I had to go to St Charles, Illinois for a week of training for work so Dave took this opportunity to check out Chicago for a long weekend. Dave flew up Thursday night and I met up with him at our hotel Friday afternoon for a weekend of Chicago fun.
Friday morning, Dave checked out Wrigley Field while I finished up my training class. Once I got into town, we headed out to Mr Beef for an Italian Beef sandwich then walked around town. We checked out Millenium Park, the Art Gallery, the John Hancock tower, then caught a movie (The Men Who Stare At Goats) and had dinner at a pretty cool italian restaurant by our hotel.
Saturday, we headed out on a double decker tour of the city. Pretty informative tour and definitely an enthusiastic tour operator. It was a pretty windy day, but at least it was sunny! Even nice enough to snag 2 seats up top of the bus.
Afterwards, we stopped at Gino's East for some Chicago deep dish pizza and then headed back to Michigan Avenue for some Garretts Popcorn. After waiting in line for a long time (over an hour!!!) we went back to the hotel to catch the second half of the Florida - South Carolina football game. Then it was off to a late dinner at Grand Lux Cafe on Michigan Avenue.
Sunday morning we did some shopping on the Magnificent Mile before heading out to Midway to catch our flight back to Florida. Of course we couldn't leave Chicago without a Chicago Dog so we grabbed some for lunch at the airport.
Dave took most of the pictures over the weekend, but here are 4 off of my camera!
Hehe...Dave being dramatic about the line at Garretts!
