Last weekend, we enjoyed a mini trip in Chicago with our friends, Sarah and Travis, while both sets of grandparents watched the kiddos.  We left early Saturday morning and headed north to Chicago.  Our first stop was a quick bite to eat at a restaurant Sarah found and then we headed off to our hotel!  Scott booked us a room at the Waldorf Astoria, a place that he had stayed at before for work.  I'm very thankful for Scott's job and am lucky to get to experience some of there perks that come from his company.  He was able to get us a suite at a discounted rate because of his affiliation with NetJets.

Here are a few pictures from our room....

I think its safe to say that none of us have stayed in a nicer place.  We ended up spending the majority of the day shopping and walking around Chicago.  For dinner ate night, we ate at Fogo de Chao.  

We may or may not have spent a good amount of time playing the game Sequence.  I'm happy to say that all of us were able to stay awake until at least 11:00.  This was an accomplishment seeing as how we each had had some rough nights with the kids earlier in the week.

I walked by the bathroom on Sunday morning and found the guys watching T.V.  We had a T.V. hidden in one of the bathroom mirrors (You can kind of see it....its right in the middle of the picture).

Our view from our room....

In the lobby of the hotel...

We took a boat tour on Sunday while we were at Navy Pier....

It was extremely windy....

And then we took a ride on the ferris wheel......

We had a great time and made some great memories.  We're looking forward to our vacation with Sarah and Travis next year, as we decided it will be more at a place that is more relaxing with no walking involved (last year we went to Vegas which involved lots and lots of walking just like Chicago).

We made it back to my parents house around 5:30  and my mom had planned to have cake there for my birthday with Scott's parents.  The kids had a great time with their grandparents, as they were kept very busy.  This is what I can gather from Elli about what she did over the course of 2 days with both sets of grandparents: she went on the swing and she went real high, drove the 'lello' (yellow) boat, took tractor rides, drove the tractor, helped make cupcakes, went to church, played in the basement, and gave mackey and bailey hugs.  Not sure which of those things is true, but in her little mind all those things happened and they very well could have!