Celebrating Two Years in Chicago!

Some might think we were a little crazy, especially with a baby coming so soon, however...we found escaping to Chicago for the weekend to be quite the adventure! We left on Friday afternoon just in time for all the great Chicago traffic to stop us. We had got a cheap hotel on priceline earlier that day that was downtown. We got in around 6 and decided we needed to eat and see the town! Here are a few pictures depicting the whole epic adventure!

Oh, and for those who weren't aware....this whole adventure was to celebrate our two year anniversary! Yep, you got it...we've been married for two glorious years. Saturday was our official anniversary date, but we decided the whole weekend deserved to be celebrated!

Here we go! Oh, there might be too many, so you can just scroll on through all the way to the bottom. Sorry about that, but I couldn't pick which were my fav's.

Love this one!Since we were staying downtown we each bought a 24 hour CTA pass that would allow us on any bus, tram, or subway the whole time we were there! It worked out grand! I would highly suggest this to anyone that goes there. It was so much easier than trying to find parking and way cheaper too!

 Some really cool looking American Flags. These were up everywhere. I wasn't sure if it is always like that, or just in preparation for Memorial Day weekend.

 This is one of my absolute favorite places in Chicago! There is so much you can do there and so many people! We had driven past it before, but this was our first experience really going there.

 And of course for dinner we had to have the famous "Chicago Dog" from America's Dogs.

 Here are all the options you could have when ordering there. It was a fun place to eat and quite tasty too!

 After dinner we went and saw a play called Murder for Two. It was absolutely hilariously amazing! There were only two actors. One who played the cop/ investigator and the other who played all 12 suspects. They both sang and played the piano through it all too. I would love to go back there again next time we come!

 After the amazing play we saw we decided to be romantic and ride the Ferris Wheel! It was huge!

 The next morning we went to the United Center, where the Chicago Bulls play, to see the Michael Jordan statue...which was way cooler than I thought that it would be.

 We caught the blue line to the red line to go see Wrigley Field! Home of the Chicago Cubs. This field was so cool! We had wanted to go see a game, however...they were playing away this weekend. Sad. It is on our list of things to do when we come back!

 We finished the trip spending time at the temple! It was so nice to be able to go in and just feel so rejuvenated and motivated to be a better couple and individuals. Since the temple is so far away we don't get to go that often, so it was a treat!

 Beautiful trees!

 A view of it all!

That was our anniversary trip in a nutshell! It felt so good to just get away and have one last weekend with just us before the baby comes. Don't get me wrong...we are very very excited to meet this little guy, but we have been given lots of advice to take advantage of this fun transitional time. We hope to see other big cities that are near us before we leave the mid-west, but who knows when those adventures will present themselves!