trip to the windy city

we took a trip with friends this weekend to the great city of chicago. that town has so much to offer, and i can promise you we did our best to explore all we could. we spent our days with good friends - all of which (for the most part), grew up in chicago. so of course we had some seriously good tour guides...which means much fun in chi-town.

we stayed at the sofitel hotel, which i highly recommend, it was great! food was a big player: ate pizza at gino's east, had a "beef" at portillo's, a steak at gene and georgetti's, and hit up some great brunch spots. we also took the architecture boat tour, went to the beach at lake michigan, went for numerous walks and even took a jog in the city, had drinks atop the john hancock building, went to a cubs game...perfect weather, great sites, seriously heavy-yummy-food, and a spectacular baseball game - i loved the victory song - go cubs, go....go cubs, go...

the crew at the top of the john hancock building

go cubbies! the game was definitely my favorite part of the trip.

instant cubs fans at the cubby bear pre-game

navy pier - jay looks so cute and calm, masking his fear of the giant ferris wheel

lady cubs

we deemed this our 'sex and the city' pic!!