Chicago part 3: The rest

We did so many fun things while in Chicago but some of my favorite moments are just sitting around having girl talks with Lexi. I can really see the appeal in sister wives sometimes!!! It would be fun to constantly have friends to sit around and talk with:) Lexi and I go way back (obviously since she is my cousin) but she has also been my roommate before and my friend for a long, long time! Some of my other favorite moments are playing Settlers of Catan while eating fancy cheeses, learning that dipping pretzels in Nutella is delicious, watching Macie play with Isla and shopping of coarse!


Below are the rest of the pictures from our awesome trip. Thanks again to Ben, Lexi and Macie for having us!!

This is the view from Lexi's apartment on the 54th floor overlooking the city and Millennium park.

This was Buckingham fountain at Millennium park

This was a neat little art/ play thing. In the summer kids come here and run around in the water like a splash pad and every minute or so the giant face squirts water out if it's mouth.

Beautiful scenery all around. I love these tree's!

The famous "bean" at Millennium park. Pretty cool actually.

Steve saw this sign and HAD to get a picture of it. His only request while we where in Chicago was to get an authentic Chicago dog.

It was pretty dang cold one morning and we had to get Isla all bundled up to walk around the city. We were not so prepared so we had to stop at target and buy a jacket for Steve and the hat and mittens for Isla. (Only people in Arizona forget to bring jackets places) We then walked to the delicious Bongo Room where we all had an amazing breakfast. Steve probably had the best food. He ordered red velvet pancakes and it had like a vanilla/ white chocolate topping. Talk about dessert for breakfast!

One of our last touristy stops was at the famous Sears tower (now officially called the Willis tower). Once the tallest building in the world now only second tallest next to one in Dubai. This was the view of the city from the top!

They just added this new thing called the skydeck ledge where you literally step onto a piece of glass and can see 103 stories below you to the ground. Sounds scary right? Not to the kids! Isla and Macie loved looking down. No fear of heights yet I guess?... 

Here is our only group shot of the whole trip! All of us standing on the skydeck.

The Chicago temple.

Isla playing in the grass outside of the Chicago temple.

 And that concludes my three post picture montage from our Chicago vacation. We hope to be able to do it again soon!