Ryan & Maria in Chicago

March 10, 2008 our beloved President Bush told us he wanted to send us some money to stimulate the economy. Maria and I, being the good patriots we are, took his request to heart. Last Thursday we took part of our little check to Chicago and began to stimulate...stimulate the economy that is.

Here are a couple of pictures of our stimulating trip to Chicago. :)



This is our view from the Intercontinental Hotel. The white building to the right is the Wrigley Building, as in Wrigley Gum. The Chicago River is between the two building, the street below is Michigan Ave.



Chicago Tribune Building right out our window. First thing I thought of was the bubble lady in Ghost Busters. Remember she was on top of that scary building acting all crazy like?



This is some weird looking thing in the middle of Millennial Park. It is pretty cool though.



This is me touching the weird thing. At first it looked like a butt, then a bean, now I'll just call it some weird thing.



This is Maria and I posing. We're posers! HA! Look at the posers!



These are some fountains at Millennial Park. The images on the big blocks change and show the faces of famous people from Chicago. I thought it was a great idea and would be a great thing for our kids to do if they were there. Maria sure had a great time running around in the water. Then I saw all the seagulls sitting on top of the block fountains, I am sure they weren't just chillin up there doing nothing. What do seagulls do? Eat and Poop. They poop in the fountains, then the nice fresh cool water falls all over the kids as they run and play....nasty. Teasing, Maria really wasn't running in the water, seriously though that would be funny and I assure you there would be pictures.



Maria enjoying herself on a little boat ride around Navy Pier on Lake Michigan.



Me being a POSER again. Just so you know that large building behind me is the second largest building in Chicago.



Maria not posing, but looking very good for someone that is 19 weeks pregnated. She was checking with her sister Jessica, she was watching our children while we were away. THANKS JESS!!!!



Cute kids...



Three Van Goghs paintings. They wanted to give them to me, but I told them I didn't have room in my luggage. We agreed to leave them at the muesum.

Maria and I had a great time. We did A LOT of walking and A LOT of eating. I think we can comfortably say we experienced Chicago. We appreciate Jessica for coming out and watching our kids, Marshall for letting Jess come out and the Hall crew for taking her to and from the airport. We made some good memories that we'll never forget. And again, a special thanks to President Bush for making this all possible. :) HA!