Sunday, September 2, 2012

Labor Day weekend trip

The 3 littles and I drove 5 hours north to visit Kenny at his hotel and see his job site and go to Chicago! Sy & Aiden are in NY at the youth conference, so we decided we needed to do something fun too! We drove up Friday night and will leave tomorrow morning. It has been so fun so far, little kids are much easier to please. They are happy with free hotel breakfast and swimming in a hotel pool. The effects of the Hurricane Isaac didn't hit too bad here. It rained a bit in the afternoon yesterday, so we went shopping. We had authentic Chicago style hot dogs for lunch and then went to several stores.
Jacklin ended up getting some new outfits, she was in desperate need of clothes and shoes. She grew out of all her shoes this summer and even skipped a size. She was being too picky about running shoes tho, so ended up with none. Wow, that girl can get a nasty attitude quick!!
Then we went back to the hotel and had family game night and snacks. And the kids were able to swim in the pool twice yesterday. Today, we went into Chicago and went to the museum of Natural History. It was super expensive but so cool! They have a very extensive Egyptian exhibit and the biggest skeleton of a T. Rex and most complete. Her name is Sue. It is a museum that would take a couple days to visit properly. It has been there for over 100 years and the architecture of the building is incredible. It is located right on Lake Michigan so we also went down to walk along the water front. The lake was angry today and had a lot of waves, wind blowing and low clouds. But we got some good pics.
We drive home tomorrow, because Kenny starts his new job in West Virginia on Tuesday and has to drive 5 hours south from Ohio to get there. Poor guy, he'll have a total of 10 hours of driving tomorrow.


The kids also have Tuesday off, but both Sy and Aiden have soccer games. So we'll be sitting watching games on Tuesday night. It's been challenging so far, they both have 2+ games a week at different locations and some are too late to take the little kids to. But, we enjoy watching so much. They are both really good players. Aiden is a goalie and Sy plays forward and mid-fielder.

That's all I got for now, we're off to eat some authentic Chicago-style pizza!