Tourist Day 3 aka Bad Parents

What do you get when you drag a 2 year old around for days with no nap and  no consistent meal time in a new city?! You get a very angry two year old. I promise!
Friday May 30th we decided to take it down a notch and let Kelsey be little for a day. It was hard for me, but Ethan kept reminding me that we are not visiting, we live here. The morning was spent stocking up at the sketchist Walmart I have ever been to, naps, and actual real live lunch.

In the evening we grabbed the first bus we could and headed to the city for more fun.

We took a bus downtown and it was the worst bus experience we have had yet. Kelsey kept pulling the stop cord and kept wanting to walk around and was screaming!!! As soon as we knew we were downtown we jumped off, and I can't say this confidently, but I'm pretty sure the other passengers were cheering and applauding. I mean, I might be confusing that with our cheering for getting OFF the bus, but the point is that everyone was happy that we were off the bus. A slight miracle happened too. Right across from our stop was at park. Halleluiah! We spent a lot of time there.

Even the parks here blow my mind. I just can't get over always being surrounded by buildings. Its beautiful in its own way. Our neighborhood is not like that so its easy to still be impressed.

 

This is the Chicago water tower. It was one of the few buildings to survive the Chicago fire.

We took a stroll down the Magnificent Mile which is where a lot of shopping happens

This is supposed to show how busy it is on a Friday, but it doesn't really

Every summer, Michigan Avenue has a summer art display. This year the art was painted seats from Wrigley field. They lined the whole street and it was super cool.

 

As part of our tour, we got "free" samples to some of the local favorites. My favorite stop was the gelato place. The server was super nice and let me try all the flavors which included but is not exclusive to:

Lemon, Raspberry, Strawberry, Blueberry basil

and Straccicatella (chocolate chip) which was my favorite.

Ethan's favorite stop was at the Hersey store for our free Kiss. We also got a free t-shirt, the popcorn, candy, and pictures. Pretty fun perks

Maybe I'll stop being obsessed with this building someday

More pictures of the city

This building is built to swoop like this: )(

After walking the Mag Mile, we decided to get dinner at the Cheesecake factory. Besides the fact that the waiter forgot our bread, we had more than enough to eat and more. Gotta love it.

No joke... These signs are everywhere. I don't know whether to feel safe or scared!

The faces in these fountains change every so often. Its hot spot in the summer when its hot

On the way to the train station, there was a giant bike parade. We have no idea why, but there were like 200 bikes followed by cop cars. It seemed really legit, but it held up all sorts of traffic.

After our bus experience in the afternoon, we decided to ride the train home. We bought our tickets and had time to kill so we just let Kelsey run around in the lobby. The lobby is really huge! Like fits a train huge. We had to wait for 30 minute and it was the most relaxing time spent the whole day.

While we were at the train station, there were only like 4 other people waiting for trains. We had were able to let Kelsey run around without being too disruptive. She started climbing on the benches and while I wasn't looking she climbed up behind a couple, popped up behind their heads and went BOO! It was hilarious. The lady screamed so loud and then we all laughed really hard. I'm so glad they were nice about it.

You can't really see it, but this is a good picture to show how the city looks from our neighborhood. You can't see the city from our street because of all the trees, but its fun to get on the main streets and see the city.