June 2007 Chicago Mini Trip Report

It occured to me yesterday, that I never posted my small trip report on our recent Chicago weekend trip.

My sister and I spent Father's day weekend visiting the Windy City!!! Woo-hoo!!! This has got to be one of our favorite places to go. We went to Navy Pier and had lunch at Bubba Gump's, which was excellent as always. After that we did some shopping stopping by Build A Bear and Ryba's Mackinac Island Fudge. Two places we always stop when we are in Chicago. After that we went and checked into our favorite hotel: Best Western River North. After some swimming and relaxing we went shopping!!! Another favorite destination is American Girl Place. After shopping we went back to relax for a bit before going to Gino's East Pizzeria for some Chicago-style deep dish pizza. YUM! We brought some of it home with us. On Saturday we went to the Museum of Science and Industry. The CSI: Experience was a lot of fun. I love seeing the U-505 submarine. My sister had fun gazing at the Fairy Tale Castle doll house which she wishes could be hers. After that we headed back to Michigan. On Sunday we went to the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, MI. It was fun, but the website and brochures made it seem like it was bigger than it was. The balloon ride was my favorite part! My sister had fun in the simulator ride where you can actually go upside. After that we came home. Overall it was fun. The only really downside to the trip was that I lost my case of CDs that had probably 50-60 of my CDs. We have no idea where it fell out of the car at. We called our hotel and Navy Pier and no one turned in anything. Oh well. Some of them needed replaced anyways. And they can be replaced, but it still has me a bit bummed out.

I will try to upload some of the photos later.