Sweet Home Chicago

"Oh Baby don't you wanna go
Back to that same old place
Sweet Home Chicago"
--Blues Brothers

Yeah, we do miss Thailand. But we have to say, there is no place quite like Chicago...especially during the Summer.

Here's a few of our favorite spots and activities:

Millennium Park hosts free concerts in the Park every weekend during the summer. It is one of our favorite summer traditions. We pack a picnic dinner and jump on the train...

Shaun and Maisy hit the fountains while I go stake out our place on the lawn...


While Shaun and I are eating and listening to the music, Maisy will usually begin making her rounds by running around to all the nearby groups and scoring all kinds of treats, toys, and sweet chairs.



And no visit downtown is complete without a stop at the Bean...on Maisy's insistence:



We also love all the other free and random things they have going on downtown, like Australian performers on stilts...


or this children's play...


Or this gymnastics Olympic preliminary event...


We love the Museums, especially the Museum of Science and Industry and the Aquarium, of which we visits at least once a week.


We love living so close to Lake Michigan..."the beach", the running/bike paths along the shore, the Point...


We love that we now have family that lives within a couple hour drive of Chicago...


We love the baseball games (and other sporting events), the shopping, the restaurants, the parks, and more. And when we get bored with all of those things, we LOVE unravelling the toilet paper...