Staycation

Josh and spent Friday 5/14 in the city. It was a really nice little recharge for us. We ate dinner at Gibson's, stayed at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, slept in, walked to a neat restaurant where we had eaten before and then, with bellies full, took a cab to Shedd Aquarium.

There we were met with this line:

Crazy, huh. We waited in line for about 40 minutes and then couldn't get tickets to see the ocean show.

We did get to go underneath the pool where the show takes place and shoot this video:



We also saw Happy Feet 4D. You know the movie...penguin can't sing but he can dance and humans are eating all their food blah blah blah. Shortened to 30 minutes. If it's raining on screen you are being misted with water; if Mumbo get's kicked/poked in any way, you get poked in the back with some strange mechanical thing in the back of your chair; many penguins dancing means your chair rumbles; when they dove in the water, bubbles (like air bubbles) were released. You get the idea.

And the best part of our time at Shedd was watching the otters. Here's another video:



Aren't they just adorable? I love otters.

And after the aquarium, we returned to our hotel for a cocktail in the "Big Bar." Our car was parked until 6 so we took advantage of that for some appetizery things and some drinks. The bar is pretty impressive. See for yourself:


They serve these GIANT cocktails, I mean huge, like $30 big. We watched a table do 2 rounds of these. Yowza!

Okay, I'm almost caught up now. Next up is Baby Shower. I don't have any pictures of the event, and only a few of the prep.

Kristen out!