One Down, One To Go

And one night at Hotel PM in between.

Got back from our family vacation yesterday. We had a FAB-yoo-luss time - hit a water park and then a theme park on our way and then spent three days touring downtown Chicago, maxing out The Boy's museum-attending abilities along the way.

Strolling Michigan Ave. and chowing down on loot from the Hershey Store.

Astonishing - the thickness of the deep dish pizza. More astonishing - the kids each ate TWO pieces (and pronounced the Super Vegi to be "totally awesome" - broccoli and all).

Playing in the colour room at the Museum of Science and Industry.

Standing on a glass floor 103 stories above the city. (Heh - The Husband can't get on it. His brain goes into self-defense mode and he literally can't move his feet over the edge.)

Eating at Ed's.

Splashing in Millenium Park.

Lost in legs.

Family portrait a la Bean

Getting ready to ride

Post-ride soakage

Fortunately, it was a very hot day. It only took us 2 hours to dry off.

Water is so much more fun when you are actually wearing your bathing suit.

In short, a good time was had by all. The Husband gets a Big Star embossed with real 24-karat gold foil for his hard work in planning our itinerary/booking hotels/finding astonishingly good local breakfast places/saving us $130 and a massive traffic headache by figuring out a way for us to leave our car at a park and ride and take the train into the city.

The kids get similar stars for being extremely well-behaved on very little sleep and with very tired legs from walking miles each day. .

And I get a big gold star, too. Just because.

Last night we stayed in our own beds enroute from Chicago to Manitoba, where we will drop off our kids for two fun-filled weeks at "Grandma's Farm" later today. Then it's back home for the two grown-ups via a super fantabulous weekend in Las Vegas with some BFFs.

Onward and upward - off to pack the two loads of laundry I did last night back into the suitcases and head off for round two.