Welcome to the hotel california...and Chicago!

A few weeks ago my friend Mel and I decided to travel to the windy city to visit old friends and listen to good music...quite a ways to travel but sometimes you just need to take a mini-vacay! We left Saturday morning and got back Sunday night and I think we absorbed as much of Chicago as possible in that little time!

We spent our 36 hour vacation walking around the city streets, eating amazing food and drinking wine. My old roomate Heather lives out there now and she was an awesome tour guide. Some of the highlights were eating Oprah's favorite cinnamon roll (that was swimming in so much frosting our hands stayed sticky for a solid hour), cupcake pancakes, italian tapas...funny how everything is about food!

Riding the biggest ferris wheel I have ever been on, traveling on every kind of public transportation know to man, the walk home from soldier field!

And last but not least the amazing music! We saw Keith Urban, The Dixie Chicks and The Eagles! I have grown up on The Eagles and they were beyond amazing...to actual listen to Hotel California live was amazing! The stadium was so big that once night fell all the cameras going on looked like flickering stars! It was unreal!

And I can't forget the amazing hotdogs and beer that we ate while we were there! Already planning a way to get back!