Chicago Trip

at Moody Church

taking a subway ride Saturday night "screaming tourists" waiting for our train

walking around the city

our train that took us to Chicago

waiting for our train Friday morning

ferris wheel at Navy Pier

view of the city

the Museum of Science and Industry

eating at Gino's pizza

making my mark on the wall at Gino's, it was very hard to find a spot!!

relaxing on the train

Dad and John

Dad and Mom

"the girls"

before we had to turn our seats back around, at least we got a picture :)

We headed to the train station early Friday morning. We spent the day on the train in our seats for a while then headed to the observation car and the snack car. Susan and i were both having a little trouble with motion sickness. We had lunch reservations in the dining car but by the time it was our turn they were out of everything except a salad, a couple of macaroni and cheese, and a couple of hot dogs off the kids menu so we opted to heading down to the lounge/snack car and ate lunch down there. We arrived in Chicago at around 3 in the afternoon and got checked into the hotel which was right in the middle of downtown just a few blocks from Michigan Ave. We took off and rode a trolley down to Navy Pier for awhile and then headed back to go eat at Gino's pizza. We lucked out and only waited in line for a few minutes. People shortly behind us were waiting for a LONG time! We gorged on pizza till we could no longer eat any more and enjoyed our waiter of many moods! We went to a movie that night too i just can't remember in which order we did that. I guess that's a sign of a full weekend when you ca't remember when you did what!

My dad purchased 2 day passes to ride the busses and subways. On Saturday we rode the bus to The Museum of Science and Industry. It was really cool, we toured the smart home, and a German submarine that we captured in World War 2, it was pretty interesting. After spending several hours at the museum we headed back downtown and did some shopping and then went and saw the movie Fireproof. After dinner we took a subway trip up north (i think it was north). We only encountered one little incident when someone started banging on the outside of the train on John and Susan's window and yelling something, not quite sure what his deal was.

On Sunday we took the bus to Moody Church and then went back and packed up our stuff and then went and ate lunch. It was raining by the time we were heading to Union Station, glad it waited till we were heading back to KC to do that!

I think we all sacked out on the train for a while on the way back only after Susan and John FINALLY figured out after much trying how to turn the seats around so that they faced each other (we knew they did from pictures). After all that work and being so excited and actually having another group do the same things as us. "Mr. Grouchy pants" came back and informed us we were not allowed to ride that way (apparently they had been sued and now it is a safety violation) oh well. We had dinner in the dining car with plenty of food left on the way back. We had so much fun packed into the weekend and it actually felt longer than a weekend amazingly enough!

Thank you SO MUCH Dad and Mom for the fun trip, we had a blast!!