Chicago Trip

All of us in the hotel suite (it was really nice, had 2 bedrooms and slept 6 people)

Cara enjoyed playing in the new box from Daddy's shoes

Playing in the Crown fountain at Millenium park

Cara is loving playing in the water

Looking into the Cloud Gate sculpture at Millenium park, this is made up of stainless steel that reflects the image all around, Cara loves looking into mirrors and enjoys seeing a baby looking at her

In front of the cloud gate sculpture

All of us looking into the sculpture for a picture


We headed up to Chicago this week and met up with Grandma A (Grandpa A is at a conference out of town), Cyndi and Dan. We enjoyed some shopping time, eating out, and a visit to Millenium Park. They have a very large water fountain in which people could play in the water, lucky for Cara we had an extra outfit in the diaper bag (acutally 2), so we were able to let her have a ball and crawl around and play. She loved it. It was fun for all of us to watch her excitement in crawling around in the water and watching the bigger kids play. We also enjoyed the Cloud gate sculpture which has some amazing effects to it. There is also a very large auditorium with outdoor seating at Millenium park and a local Chicago Jazz orchestra was rehearsing.

It was a fun trip, although Miss Cara was afraid she might miss something so good naps were out of the question. But considering her lack of sleep she handled it all really well. We took Cara on her first Subway ride to get to Millenium park. She was able to stay in her stroller and get right on the subway (of course the locals commuting for work were not amused to have a stroller in the way). The weather held out for us, despite being a bit humid and warm at least it was not raining. We had a really good time and it was fun to share it with the family (sorry Grandpa).