Spring Break in a Nutshell

Brief update from the Hogan household. We're alive and well. It's been so long since I last posted, what to catch you up on...we'll start with Spring Break.

Spring Break 2010: A Trip to Chicago!

Sadie enjoying her bread at dinner.

Brooklyn eating only the "soft part" of the bread. She doesn't care for the crust and will leave piles of crust carcasses on her plate, as shown below.

Sadie and her chocolate dipped and sprinkled marshmallows. She's my sugar baby!
On the ferris wheel on Navy Pier. Such a fun place. I still haven't heard the end of the time we forgot to ride a ferris wheel. I think I'll be trying to make it up to Brooklyn the rest of her life.

Look! I'm a turtle! The awesome Children's museum on Navy Pier. I highly recommend it to any parent visiting the Chicago area! So much fun. Something for every little kid.

Sadie and her catch of the day.

Brooklyn walking through the pipe headed toward the water room at the museum.

Here Brooklyn and I are atop the Willis Tower (formerly called the Sears Tower) 103 stories up sitting in the glass lookout. It's quite an experience to be 103 stories up and be able to look straight down to the sidewalk below.

Such a fun trip. We spent most all of our time at museums. We visited the Shedd Aquarium, the Field Museum, Children's museum, a Hershey store, double decker bus tour, went to a mirror maze and freaked out the kids probably the "broken elevator" starting out the maze was the problem...and so much more! I think next time I want to do all the museums, I'm going to go in the winter time and avoid all the lines. The lines to get into the museums just to buy tickets were ridiculous! We waited an hour outside the Shedd aquarium just to get into the building to purchase tickets! If you go, buy tickets ahead of time and skip the lines!

I think the thing that made me laugh the hardest was that our hotel happened to be right across the street from a fire station. Needless to say we heard a fair amount of sirens and each time the girls would run to the window to see it before it disappeared into the city. The first couple nights were interesting trying to get kids to settle down and tucked in and then off goes another siren, back to square one.

A good trip, a good time. Chicago is a fun city!