A Getaway

For the first time since having Addilyn, Tyler and I went on vacation without the kids. Tyler's parents came and played with the kids in Albert City for a few days so Tyler and I could run off and play in Chicago. It was so fun!

Tyler always makes this face when I take a selfie in the car. I actually have multiple pictures of us with these exact faces. Goober.

Alone in a restaurant!? What are we going to do with ourselves?!

We went to Navy Pier and watched the fireworks.

A Bigfoot sighting...if Bigfoot liked to hang out in extremely well-lit walkways.

The Chicago River!  I forget how much we love wandering through downtown Chicago...and without a stroller it's pretty enjoyable too.

We brought our bikes so that we could bike the Lakeshore trail. It was pretty fun being able to bike our favorite trail again (but without each of us having two kids on our bike).

Chicago pizza!  Granted it was gluten-free but still delicious. Tyler loves me so much to forgo Giordano's so that I could get some Chicago-style pizza as well.

Ever time we used to bike up and down the trail on a hot day, we would see people jumping off the pier and want to try it. We finally did!

Silly kissy face (just to make our kids uncomfortable some day).

Dive!
This was not only super-fun (if not cold), but we were jumping in right next a celebrity's kids. She's a talk show host and her kids and husband were pretty hilarious. Fun times!

Kissy face by the Bean.

Wandering Millennium Park in the evening.

Sitting and enjoying watching all the people. There was a concert going on just east of us.

After we played in Chicago, we stopped in Galena for a night on our way home. We wandered up and down the very cute Main Street area and then ate dinner in a local restaurant (with a surprisingly extensive gluten-free menu). After that, we grabbed some pints of ice cream from Walmart and headed back to our hotel to eat our dessert in the jacuzzi (we got a great deal online to stay in a honeymoon suite so we had a jacuzzi in our room)! It was an awesome ending to a wonderful little vacation!