Chicago!

Finally I got this post done, it is very picture heavy! But hopefully shows the amazing time that we had.

Nate’s birthday was on the 4th of April. I had been working on a surprise for our 10 year anniversary that was on the 7th of April and I let him in on the surprise for his birthday. He has always told me since we have been together that his dream was to visit Wrigley Field. He has been a long time Chicago Cubs fan. He grew up across the street from Hohokam park where the Cubs come for Spring training.

The night of his birthday we had a Cubs themed party for him and had the family over for cake and ice cream.              

Opening the BIG surprise

He couldn’t believe it…

We are going to Chicago!

      

So we packed our bags and off we went!

with mama’s happy pills and a glass of wine of course…can’t fly without those!

 

 

We stayed at Hotel Sax, the view from the room was amazing.

 

The first night in Chicago we went to dinner…where else? Harry Caray’s!

The next day it was off to Wrigley!

We got on the subway and headed downtown

We had a tour of Wrigley before the game. It was 2 hours long and so cool to be able to actually go down on the field.

 

Then we went to a pub nearby to have some pregame drinks!

           Our seats were right behind Soriano, so I had to get some good pictures for B.

I had one last surprise for Nate in the 5th inning…

and we had our first authentic Chicago dogs!

It was an amazing day!

The next day was our anniversary…we headed down to Navy Pier. 

Yep, that sign is right a very chilly 34 degrees…it was really foggy and drizzling rain.

The only good thing was that the beer was as cold as the weather!

 

We had some fun with the fun house mirrors

   

After freezing for the morning we decided to head back to the hotel room and this was our lunch!

The night of our anniversary we went to an amazing dinner on the 70th story in downtown Chicago.

This was the view from our table while it was still light out.

 

Here is the view as the sun is going down.

It was breathe taking…so was our meal…6 courses!!!

This was the view of Navy Pier from the restaurant.

And us just having fun with the camera in the elevator going down 70 stories.

We weren’t ready to call it a night when we got back to the hotel so we went next door to the martini/bowling place…

 

It was an absolutely phenomenal trip!