trip to chicago with katie april 2011

deep dish pizza at pizzera uno

KPY: Katie said she LOVED deep dish pizza.  For dessert, she wanted their deep dish fudge sundae, but i said no, we had to walk first

katie and glenn's favorite food

KPY: After the pizza we walked all the way to Navy Pier, in the dark! looking for ice cream. Nothing was opened, so we took a taxi to the old Hilton, which was very near our hotel. Luckily they had deep dish fudge sundaes. So cute in a little skillet.

chick exhibit at science and industry

sharks at the acquarium

KPY: Katie read that you have more chance of choking on a toothpick than of being eaten by a shark 

making front page news at the Tribune

KPY: We found this cool interactive display at the Tribune building. If you imput your email, they'll send you the photo........ 

lunch with John and Connie

KPY: The Wesley children were in the same school as Kay and Jen....back in Silverlake. He was working at Children's Hospital at the time.

katherine with katie's hersey choclate hat

dinner using a real Weber grill

KPY: I had a delicious hamburger, grilled INSIDE on a Weber Grill with REAL charcoal briquettes. The waitress assured me they have triple venting. 

american girl of course

who has the bigger mouth?

a second turn at the front page news

T rex and katie

KPY: Dinosaur Sue is the most complete skeleton found in the U.S.

Untouchable tour, katherine won the grand prize

KPY: What a hoot! This guy was a crack up. I won the book, which I gave to Katie. We learned all about Al Capone and saw where he lived, etc. 

that is as close katie would get to the stadium

KPY: We made a special stop on our taxi ride back to the airport, just so Katie could see one of the great old baseball stadiums. 

the new landmark in chicago

KPY: Its nicknamed the `bean' and is very popular. we saw all kinds of people waiting to take their reflected picture.  It's very cool

Katie learns about a 6 hour travel delay

KPY: American canceled our mid-day flight and arbitrarily put us on the 6:30 flight. So Katie and I made up a detective hunt and went off to find things like: wheel chairs, passenger dogs, twins, etc.