We just returned from spending a couple of days in Chicago. We left early yesterday morning and arrived in downtown Chicago at about 2:30 pm. We stayed in a Fairfield right off the Magnificent Mile. Right after we arrived and checked in we made a beeline for the American Girl Store because part of our hotel stay package included a $50 gift certificate. Karissa carefully picked out a highchair for her baby.
We then walked around the Water Tower area checking out several stores and taking pictures and videos of Karissa. Afterwords we headed back to the hotel to catch a taxi to the Publican. The Publican is a restaurant we heard about from Food Network. We meet some great friends there and enjoyed a fabulous meal. Some of the best food we have ever had. We returned to the Magnificent Mile for dessert at Ghirardelli's. After this Karissa was pretty tired and asking to go to our room. Once in our room we all enjoyed a great night's sleep. We woke the next morning to have breakfast at Dunkin' Donuts, somehow we can never go to Chicago without eating there. Then we headed to Macy's because I found I brought the totally wrong kind of shoes for all this walking and we weren't done walking yet.
After taking advantage of the great Independence Day sale we checked out of the hotel in order to find our way to the Taste of Chicago. The Taste of Chicago is where some 60 or so locally owned food vendors gather at Grant Park to serve amazing food. We highly enjoyed everything we ate as well as the setting. Grant park is beautiful being surrounded by the lake as well as those impressive high-rise buildings. After all this we were more than ready to make our drive home which turned out to have a nice added bonus. We managed to time our approach to St. Louis just as all the fireworks were going off. Our drive to the house was accompanied to the sounds of Karissa exclaiming "Oh, there is one!"; "That was a big one!"; "That's my favorite color!" Our trip was wonderful and full of great experiences!
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