Finally home…

July 15th, 2007

So we’ve been travelers for the past 2-3 weeks…and we’re finally home! Don’t get me wrong…I absolutely love going places…but I sure love being at home in our house. This weekend we traveled up to Chicago for Dan Wolfe’s wedding. (Jared and Dan work together and graduated together.) It was a lovely wedding and a fun reception too. As always, I loved getting all fancied up in a new dress and seeing Jared all cute in his dress clothes. Since we were in Chicago, we figured we’d stay the night and spend Saturday in Chicago…since we don’t get up there as often as we’d like. We stayed at a Red Roof Inn. I know…I know…doesn’t seem like the nicest place to stay. However…we stayed there upon recommendation from hotels.com….and you know what…not too shabby! The entire chain is re-doing their hotels, and it was one of the coolest hotels we’ve stayed at. Anyway…Saturday we slept in and headed over to IKEA for lunch a little shopping. Then we drove downtown and cought the “L” to Wrigley Field. We didn’t buy Cub’s tickets in advance…but there are always scalpers selling them on the street…so we figured we’d find something that way. And if not…no big loss. So we wandered around for about an hour…and quickly noticed that tickets were WAY overpriced. Some guy was selling standing room only tickets for $100…what the heck?! Anyway…we finally found a guy who needed to get rid of his tickets and it was almost the 4th inning…so he dropped the price low enough for us to justify buying them. They ended up being really good seats and we sat next to some cool Cub’s fans too. The Cub’s won 9-3…so it was a fun game and we’re glad we went. We caught the train back downtown afterwords and played around in the fountain and Millenium Park for a bit…and then headed back home. We made a quick stop in Bloomington to see Jared’s family…but had to hit the road pretty quickly. We got back close to 2 a.m. last night…but it was a super-fantastic weekend. So now we’re relaxing around the house…something we haven’t done in quite some time. The cats are both asleep and we’re watching today’s Cub’s game on tv. Good times…

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