Keeping up this blog has been a challenge. It's really busy around here! However, after accumulating a bunch of pictures and memories, I thought I should try better to get stuff onto my blog. I hate to not document things.
Back to our cross country trip... I shouldn't be too worried, Joe has made a beautiful video of our trip and we have that!
I believe this would be day 9 in Chicago. After a full day at Millennium Park and Downtown we added another full day in Chicago. We wanted to go to Lincoln Park Zoo (free!) and then hit the beach which was right near the zoo. I have to admit it sounds a bit weird to mention the beach in Chicago.
We went to a lot zoos on this trip. I really enjoyed this one. The zoo being situated so beautifully in the middle of the city made it so enjoyable. Not to mention - free, made it great too. The weather was perfect!
Another great shot of Chicago's skyline. I took a lot of pictures with my iPhone. In fact, I've ignored my camera lately. My phone is so much easier to take pictures of moments as they occur. I miss my big clunky camera. I shall dust it off and use it more often.
After the zoo, we had walked into the city and had lunch at McDonalds. We also had to make a stop at a local Walgreens to pick up some beach towels! In the McDonalds, I spotted one of these.
I just stared at it and thought how unused those payphones must be! It almost seemed to be a thing of the past and it registered useless in my head. However, there it was! I didn't even check if it still took a quarter to make a call. Funny, I just saw a payphone the other day and we had a similar conversation upon finding it and then we noticed that the phone handle had been ripped off. It was no longer a working payphone. Off to the beach.
We packed our bags that morning to spend a few hours at the beach after the zoo. I didn't know what to expect, but once we got there it looked just like an ocean view except it was Lake Michigan. The beach was crowded. We placed our stroller and towels way in the back and set up. I didn't even bring my swimsuit. I just laid back with Max and enjoyed the beautiful weather. Everything felt like any other beach but I would say the an ocean breeze might have been the one thing I noticed different.
Eventually, Max fell asleep and I put him in his stroller under the shade. I laid back and tried to relax while I watched my kids go back and forth between the very crowded beach hoping they would find their way back and forth and not get lost. I didn't even visit the water till the very end just so that I could say I stuck my foot into Lake Michigan. Done.
After the beach, it was time to head back to our hotel and unwind, have dinner and go to bed! Goodbye, Chicago! Next stop, Wisconsin!
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