Anyway, we flew into Indy and Rhiannon and Molly picked us up. We stopped in Clay City for a couple of hours and then headed to Terre Haute for dinner at my parents house with the fam. The original plan was that Mom and Dad would meet us at the airport and we'd drop Nolan off with them, but I didn't want to miss seeing everyone else. So we hung out and then left the next morning to drive up to Chicago. We stayed downtown at The Avenue Hotel just off Michigan Avenue. We had so much fun! But we did miss Nolan. :) This was the first time I was away from him for more than a night. Surprise! We both did fine. Now, when I go to training in Arizona for work in December, that'll be a different story since I'll really be without either of my boys!
We got in and got settled at the hotel and then worked on our game plan. Now, I like to have things planned out, but for some reason I didn't do much 'research' before we took off. I mean, I had the basics down, like Sears Tower and a Cubs game, but other than that I had no clue what we were going to do. Pretty much as soon as we got outside once we figured out we'd hit the Sears Tower first, Brad and I started fighting. I guess bickering would be a better word. He wanted to try and take the bus, and I said let's either walk or take a cab. We don't even ride the bus in Denver! Plus I was getting hungry, so that's not a good combination with anything. We managed to get our act together though, and had a pretty good day. Sears Tower, Buckingham Fountain, Millennium Park, dinner, drinks, and uninterrupted sleep in a king-size bed. :)
View of Soldier Field from Sears Tower - if we would have been on top of things, we would have gotten tickets to a preseason Bears game too!
View from Sears Tower - I didn't think I would enjoy Sears Tower much, but it was actually pretty interesting.
View from Sears Tower - I thought the curvy building was neat.
Brad had time to catch up with Michael Jordan for some one-on-one. People were laughing when I was taking the picture. Now that I think about it, it was actually pretty funny!
Millennium Park - I have no idea what this thing is. It looks like a bean if you ask me.
Us in the bean. I really should post all of the pictures that we tried before actually getting this one...haha
View from our hotel room window...construction! We thought it was going to be like that commercial where every time the guy starts talking the jackhammer starts going. I love when he says "Really??" Cracks me up! What is that commercial even for, hotels.com? Because that's what we used! HA! Anyway, it ended up being no big deal at all.
We headed to a Cubs game on Friday. We have a few friends in Denver that are from Chicago and are obviously Cubs fans, so they gave us the scoop on where to go before the game. We took the L (because we were cool enough to say that instead of 'the subway' even though we had no idea what it meant....at least I didn't!) and it was HOT. I'm not even kidding, I was sweating. Could be the humidity of the Midwest (that I do not miss, by the way), the 8 million people crammed on the subway, I mean, the L, or very little air conditioning. Anyway, once we got to Wrigley Field we went straight to the Cubbie Bear, a bar across from home plate that is where it's at pre-game. It was a pretty fun place, just crowded. And beers were the same price there as they were in the stadium. Guess it's the atmosphere.
As soon as we started across the street for the game, it started raining. Great! Brad had gotten our tickets on stubhub.com, so he was pretty sure they were covered so we went in to check it out. Now, the game is on a rain delay. But did that stop the stadium from filling up? No! I couldn't believe it. People just kept pouring in. If that were happening at Coors Field the seats would be empty. But the Rockies suck, the Cubs aren't doing too bad (at least they weren't a month ago). Neither of us had ever been to Wrigley Field so it was neat to see. Lots of history. I couldn't believe how old everything was though - I've gotten spoiled at Coors Field with the giant TVs everywhere and the lineups for both teams posted at all times. Wrigley Field just has the old school score, inning, number of player at bat and that's about it. We had a great time, and now we can cross this field off our list. We're trying to visit all the MLB fields. I think we'll probably get the Midwest ones covered pretty quickly.....wonder why? :)
View from our seats - literally - I was sitting directly behind this post. I didn't care though, I could see most of it. I like to people watch, so that was hindered at all!
We had a few things to keep us occupied during the hour-long rain delay.
Packed seats! It was a really good game until about the 7th inning, then the other team (I can't even remember who it was!) hit a grand slam. The fans quieted down pretty quickly.....haha
Saturday we went to Navy Pier. We had a great time! We just walked around and shopped for awhile. There was some kind of competition called City Race or something like that going on - it was like the Amazing Race - where two people were paired up doing a scavenger hunt type race. I got asked if they could tickle my foot and take a picture of it - twice!
There was a band playing on one of the stages they had set up - The Neverly Brothers - they were an oldies cover band and they were pretty good! That's what Brad listens to at work all day, so I've gotten used to listening to it in the car too. Probably because we can both agree on that....he hates country music, and I hate that alternative/grunge stuff he listens to. So we sat down and listened for awhile and had a beer in the beer garden. It was perfect weather! I tried to get Brad to dance with me but he wouldn't do it. The honeymoon must be over!! haha Just kidding, babe.... :)
Brad had heard how good Dunkin Donuts coffee was, and there just happened to be one not far from our hotel. So after grabbing coffee and donuts, we hit the road back to Indy. We met my parents, Kylie, and Nolan at a park close to the airport to have lunch before catching our flight. Nolan is always pooped after going to Indiana - I think there's just a lot to take in!
Nolan with his buddy Kylie at the park before we left.
We had a great time on our trip! Thanks to Nanny and Papa for keeping Nolan for the weekend....and for wearing him out for the flight home!
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