Back To Reality...

Geeze, Kirsten, it's been a week - write something already!  :)

Matt and I celebrated our anniversary by visiting Chicago.  We had a blast being tourists and enjoying the sights Chicago had to offer.  The last time I was in the city, I was 8 years old.  It had been a long time and yet so many memories flooded back.

We took the train into the city - isn't this a great picture of Eric and Steph? And of course, we had to get a picture of Yellow Pants crossing the yellow line. Don't try this at home, kids, he's a professional!  ;)

We started our day by going to Navy Pier and had lunch at Bubba Gumps.  I hadn't been to one before and we had a very tasty lunch.

Next up, we went into the pier itself.

As you can see, it was pretty crazy from all the tourists, but we had fun walking down the pier.  We also rode on the ferris wheel to get some great vista shots.

After the pier, we visited the Water Tower.  It's a huge mall that I remember going to once as a kid with Grandma.  It had changed quite a bit since we were there, but it was still massive and had glass elevators.

That evening we met up with some of Eric's friends and had a great dinner at the Cheesecake Factory at the base of the John Hancock building.  Our dinner was yummmmmmyyyyy!  :)  And our desserts were even yummier!  Matt got plain old cheesecake - BORING!  I opted to have the pineapple upside-down cheesecake and it was fantastic!

We were pretty tuckered out from the day and headed home.  We did manage to get some shots of Union Station while we were waiting for the train.

It was a great day!