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Chicago - Sandy's Bed and Breakfast |
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Chicago was a treat for us.
Not because it was the first time we’d seen Lake Michigan, although it
was. And not because we could finally
break out our shorts, which we were ready to do. It was because we had family there. It was the first time we had gotten to visit
with people we knew – to hang out with someone that we hadn’t seen every day
for the past 3 months. We stayed with my
cousin Sandy, which was like being at a first rate bed and breakfast. She cooked for us, arranged for other
relatives to come by to visit, even had a birthday party complete with Dirt
Cake for Griffin! (Our baby turned
7!) To top it all off, she was our tour
guide the whole time we were there. Not
once did we have to get out the GPS and try to figure out how to get to a
museum, although we went to 5 or 6. Not
once did we have to worry about admission fees.
She had all of that covered by various relatives that already had
memberships. Every detail was taken care
of. All we had to do was sit back and
enjoy the ride…Dan didn’t even have to drive!
To truly understand how fortunate we were to have Sandy as a
tour guide you’d have to know that Sandy is a retired teacher and a seasoned world
traveler. She’s been to every
continent. She’s seen the Great Wall of
China, ridden a camel in Egypt, and watched the Blue-footed Boobies in the Galapagos
Islands. Sandy is a force to be reckoned
with. We were lucky that she was
available to show us around Chicago.
Just a few weeks after we left she was off to Croatia! In the short time that we were in the Windy
City we visited the Museum of Science and
Industry, the Shedd Aquarium,
the Adler Planetarium and
Astronomy Museum, had a picnic on the shore of Lake Michigan, walked along
the historic Illinois
and Michigan Canal and toured the Isle
a la Cache Museum. We also learned
to play dominoes and visited with “guest historian” Barbara. It was like a vacation, only too short. We’ll definitely be going back.
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