We hope that everyone had a wonderful Easter! Because of visits from family (Jaime's brother and parents came to visit the weekend before) and visits to family (we're heading to St. Louis soon...) surrounding Easter, Steve and I got to Easter to celebrate as a family of 2. We celebrated Christ's resurrection at the sunrise service at church, and then left for the Windy City! Steve found some great deals for a hotel room just off Michigan Avenue, along with tickets to the Shedd Aquarium. We spent all day on Sunday walking around Chicago, taking in a lot of the touristy attractions. The weather was beautiful (around 45 degrees or so), but it certainly lived up to it's nickname!
We rode the Ferris Wheel at Navy Pier-complete with beautiful views of Lake Michigan and the city of Chicago.
We went to the big mirrored bean thingy as a joke, but ended up being very captivated by the whole thing. It's in the middle of Millenium Park, and is literally a large mirror in the shape of a bean. It gave off great reflections of the city (as you can see in the picture above)! A bunch of people were standing underneath the bean, so we headed inside to see what all the hype was about! It was pretty crazy! Can you find us in the picture?
It's ok if you can't...I still can't find us either...
On Monday, the weather took a turn for the worse--rainy and temps barely above zero, so we hoped into our first ever Hybrid taxi and headed over to the Shedd Aquarium. We had great time looking at all the different types of fish. Steve even made a friend!
And since no trip to Chicago (at least in Jaime's mind) is complete without a trip to Ikea, we hit up Schaumburg "on the way home" for a shopping spree. And since no trip to Chicago (at least in Steve's mind) is complete without a trip to Portillo's for Italian beef, we stopped and got dinner there before heading back to Milwaukee.
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