Girls Trip to CHICAGO!

My friend Janel and I flew from Vegas to Chicago to meet up with our friend Avery, who recently moved to Ohio for her husband to attend podiatry school. As she put it, she has basically been a single mom for the past year while he studied and attended class, so she needed a break like she needs cake on fast Sunday! So, we planned a girls trip and it actually happened! We each have 3 kids, and our trooper husbands watched them for four days while we explored Chicago, ate a ton of great food, and just enjoyed a nice break. I felt like it really didn't matter what we did because we just had so much fun hanging out, catching up and doing whatever we wanted to do, when we wanted to. Basically the opposite of being home with kids. :)

Navy Pier

 Architecture Foundation Boat Tour 

 

Lurie Gardens

The Bean and Millennium Park 

Our Favorite Selfie

Everything we ate was fabulous! We had to do the obligatory deep dish Giovanni's pizza and Chicago dogs first, but we also discovered some great popcorn  made fresh every few hours at Garrett's, a fabulous Mexican place called Mercadido and of course a trip to Sprinkles, even though we have one here in Vegas.

 The Art Institute Museum

Top of the Hancock Building

Headed for Home

Thanks to our hubbies for making this trip possible - we appreciated every moment of it! Maybe this should be an annual trip... or maybe we should let the guys recover before we start planning anything...