Our Weekend Get Away

Chris got me a weekend to Chicago for my birthday this year. We had a wonderful time this past weekend. We left on Friday night and headed down to Chicago. We stayed in a hotel down in Woodfield area, then hopped the train to downtown Chicago on Saturday morning for a weekend down there. We had a wonderful time. It snowed all day Saturday while we were three so we were able to take advantage of the snow falling and all of the lights of the city.We stayed in a wonderful hotel that Chris booked right off of Michigan Ave. We shopped Michigan Ave, State Street, ate at my Favorite; the Cheesecake factory, and made it over to Navy Pier to see the arrival of Santa and the fire works. So wonderful...... We then took a taxi over to a little German market where we drank hot cocoa, ate wonderful food, and admired the beautiful lights and sounds of Christmas in the city. We checked out of our hotel on Sunday, hopped the train back to get our car, and headed back to Madison. We had a wonderful weekend just the two of us. Next time.. we are definitely bringing the kids though. We feel that they missed so much.. especially the arrival of Santa and the fireworks. I have never seen it snow during fireworks and it was so magical.