Chicago Bound

We headed to Illinois for a few days with my family and touristing.  David had never been to IL or WI, so he got to claim two new states!  I think one of my favorite things about not living at home anymore is that I can tourist when I go visit now:)

My cousin and her family came into town and we spent Thursday and Friday with them in the city.  We were able to score some great deals and touristed it up schwanky style by staying at the Palmer House downtown on Thursday night.  I could get used to that ;)  My mom and brother joined us on Friday.

In a less than stellar start we were a) booted onto an earlier flight so we left PGH at 7 instead of 7:30 and b) stuck on the apron 50 ft from the terminal at O'Hare for 90 minutes due to lightening in the area.

Things got better once we made it downtown and found our awesome hotel!