Girl's Weekend in Chicago!

Yes, it was as good as it sounds. Four wonderful days with my mother and sisters spent chatting, laughing, eating, shopping and lounging.

A few highlights:
- "Wicked" really is as good as everyone said it would be, even though that evening we were all feeling a little under the weather. The music was terrific and the actors incredibly talented.
- Chicago-style pizza is highly overrated. Grateful for the experience and atmosphere, don't need to eat it again.
- If you're staying on the "Mile," it truly is Magnificent. Most anything I could have asked for right there, and in bigger and better quantities than I could find here, i.e. Macy's and Nordstrom were both pretty darn impressive and had way too much to offer.
- Garrett's famous popcorn: thought it was overrated until I found myself eating the whole bag and wanting more. It really was delish.
- Sharing a hotel room with my mother and having the sisters in the ajoining room. It was a big party the whole weekend long.
- Late-night and dinner conversations ranging anywhere from reminicing about the past, making plans for the future, discussing family situations, social issues, cultural phenomena, what the guy at the next table must be thinking, is our server just as bizarre as he appears, and of course the men in our lives.

Katelyn and I



So we did a little shopping...



Mom (and dad), thank you very much for a much needed trip away from home. A chance to reconnect with my sisters, enjoy the friendship I have with my mother, miss and therefore appreciate my little ones and come home ready to start it all again. A big thanks to Denten as well who was a champ holding down the fort here as he was also feeling crummy while I was away. It was terrific! 'Til next year...