YEA, Company!!

My mother in law, Cindy, was here the past few days, and I forgot what is was like to hang out with a real person during the day instead of the dogs! It was great! She came on sunday and because that is Cort's day off we were able to hang out together with her. We picked her up from the airport and then took her to downtown Chicago, where we were going to go on the skydeck of Sears tower, but decided against it after we found out it was an hour and a half wait! We decided to take the water taxi to Navy Pier, which I heard really good things about but was ultimately disappointed, becuase it was a really big tourist attraction so there was a lot of just little kiosks and dumb little shops, but we walked to the end and looked out over Lake Michigan and say the city from a distance which was pretty cool.

On monday Cort went back to work and Cindy and I went downtown. We were going to ride the metra down there but decided against that after I found out it would take an hour and a half, whats with that time limit? weird. Anyways we walked around millenium park and took some pictures and then rented some bikes and rode down to the John Hancock building, where Oprah lives, hoping we would see her as we ate lunch outside in the Cheesecake factory. But sadly, no Oprah today, maybe another time, stay tuned for pictures if I ever see her!! I loved riding the bikes down there it was way fun, on the way down to the building we rode on the sidewalk, but on the way back when we realized that our parking meter was TWO HOURS over, we decided to venture out and ride back through the street so we could get there faster and avoid a ticket. It was a little scary because there was no bike lanes and the drivers are crazy, as you may have realized from my previous post, but it was really fun, we were laughing the whole way back!

I had to take her back to the airport on wednesday morning, it was sad to see her go, I loved having her here, it was so much fun! Anyone else that wants to come out and keep me company I would be happy to have!!

P.S. You would be glad to know that I did NOT get a parking ticket, I was shocked!