Our Big Trip Part Three: Chicago!

Though I was born in the midwest and have been back there many many times I have never spent any time in Chicago. We've driven past a time or two, but I've never actually gone there to do sightseeing. We had one extra day to do stuff in between the reunion and our flight home so we decided to go see Chicago. It was really cool. I am sad we were so limited on time and didn't get to do much. But we did hit a couple of hot spots. I can not get pictures to show up in the order I want, or move them into a good order, so it is just random and I'll explain as I go.
We decided one thing we had to do was go to the top of Sears Tower, (or what was formerly known as Sears Tower). The thing is, that is the one thing that a lot of people decide they have to do, so the wait was really long. We ended up in line for at least 2 hours, and we were not prepared for it. The kids were starving by the time we got to the top so we bought some nasty overpriced popcorn at a gift shop. Still, it was an amazing sight. They had these glass balconies that you could step out on and look straight down. It was so freaky. Here is Jaxon on the balcony:
Here is a view from the top:

We also ended up going to legoland. It was pretty cool and the kids had a really great time. The thing is that if you go on a trip with kids everything has to be geared towards kids. Jake and I would love to go back and do grown-up things like visit museams, go to shows, and do more sightseeing. Legoland was still fun though.

The last thing we did was to go down to Navy Pier. They have the biggest ferris wheel I have ever seen there, but we didn't get to ride it because it started to rain soon after we got there. Everything shut down right as we were going to buy tickets because there were reports of lightning. We still walked down it and looked out over the lake and back at the big city. It was really neat. Here's a view of the city at night from the pier:

We went to this 50's style diner in downtown that not only served up some good food, but they served up a big helping of Chicago attitude with it. It seems as though people are proud of their rude population like the south is proud of their "southern hospitality". Our waitress yelled at us a few times, and got more than impatient if we took too long to decide. There were signs on the wall that said things like "eat and get out." It was all in good fun though and we were entertained by the rudeness of people and how some people got all offended and the servers didn't care. Here's Kailey in one of the hats:

Here's Lyla modeling a hat:

Here's all of us at the top of the tower formerly known as Sears Tower: (not sure why Mckayla is making that face).

Here's Jake and the kids on the glass balcony:

Here's some of the mini-Chicago at legoland:

The entrance to legoland:

There's a view of the tower formerly known as Sears Tower from the highway. We were at the very very top of that huge building! And it took less than 2 minutes to get to the top!

Here's Jaxon and a buddy in the jungle adventure part of Legoland:

And that is it for our big trip! Our flight home went really well. The kids slept the whole way because we had to wake them up so early to go to the airport. Plus it was a non-stop flight which made our lives so much easier. Then we got really busy when we got home, which explains my big delay in posting this last post. More to come.....hopefully soon.