CHICAGO

My brother and his wife, Matthew and Alisha went to Chicago last week for a work conference.  It has been nearly two years since we have seen them so Morgan and I decided to get our kids out of school and drive to Chicago to hang out with them.

We left early Thursday morning and drove the 5 hours to Chicago. We picked Matthew and Alisha up from their hotel and then drove to ours to park. Our room was ready early so we took our stuff up to the room first.

Then we walked to the Shedd Aquarium.  Morgan and I had won 4 general admission tickets at a fundraiser in the spring. For some reason they let all three of our kids get in for free.  (HORRAY!)


When we first got to the aquarium I discovered that our camera was talking keeping the pictures in the memory. (This is the old camera since the first got broken on the bobsled ride.)

Luckily I had my iPod with us, so all of these pictures are from that camera.

Josh

Noelle really liked Uncle Matthew 

Eli brought his Spy Gear Binoculars

Eli and Josh are by the Anaconda 

Noelle loved walking around and seeing the fish. 

This turtle is named Nickle.  She was injured as a baby and swims with her back legs up,
so she is unable to live in the wild. 

We got to see a diver feeding the fish in the Caribbean Reef. 

Eli and Josh got  tired and wanted to be in the stroller. 

Alisha, Josh, Matthew, Eli, Morgan and Noelle at Lake Michigan

We spent a lot of time at the Cloud Gate sculpture, or as we called it The Giant Jelly Bean.

Morgan asked me to take a picture of him doing this fancy trick.  After we started it nearly all the other groups there started taking pictures in the same pose. Go Morgan!

You can't go to Chicago without trying real Chicago-style pizza!  It was huge and delicious. I understood the phrase Pizza Pie seeing this!

We also went to Navy Pier where Morgan had an interview.

Silly mirrors are fun!

Look at my Gianormous Brain!

Morgan and Melissa in Chicago!

Noelle was so good the entire day!  She got 1 tiny nap on the drive to Chicago and the rest of the day she was a peach. 

Matthew and Alisha in Chicago!