Chicago

Last week, I flew to Texas to drop Cinderella off at our friends' house.  She and I stayed to visit for a couple of days, and she is in Hawaii with them this week.  Then, since Snow White and Sleeping Beauty didn't get to go to Hawaii, I met the girls and King in the next best place(?) for vacationing--Chicago. 

It's not a tropical paradise, but we had great weather and had a fabulous time.  The highlights were seeing our friends, Peter Pan, the Field Museum, the Shedd Aquarium, the Adler Planetarium, Navy Pier, Architecture Boat Tour, the American Girl Store, Chicago Style Pizza, Oberweis Ice Cream, parking, and freaking out while being honked at in downtown traffic.  (Okay, maybe that last two weren't so great.)

And, here is way more photographic proof of our adventures than you'd ever need....

Peter Pan

Parking in Chicago is SO much fun.

Sleeping Beauty thought taking a picture of Chicago's skyline was dumb.

Shedd Aquarium and Lake Michigan

 Views from Adler Planetarium

Moon Jump

UV-Ray detector beads

 Field Museum, including only a fraction of pictures the girls took of the animals.

We thought this guy looked like a Dr. Suess creature.

Don't ask me what King is doing in this picture...

Shedd Aquarium

That's a live little alligator!

The Jellyfish were awesome.

With the sharks.

Wish you could tell from the picture the amazing colors of coral.

We loved seeing our friends, the A's, again!

 Architecture Boat Tour

 Navy Pier

Just chatting with Bob Newhart

Downtown Chicago

Water Tower Pumping Station

Showing Cinderella that we saw Hawaiian girls, too. :)

The moms and the kids.  At Oberweis Ice Cream Shop.  Yum.