Chicago Trip

William and I wanted to take a trip to Chicago together "just the two of us" before Christmas. So we both agreed on Tuesday (23rd). We decided that probably two days before and it was ridiculously hard to find cheap train tickets from Pontiac to Union Station. So we decided to do what Ryan and I usually do and drive to Westmont (where our cousins live) and hop on the train there.

It was so hard to wake up early, but we wanted to make a whole day of it. We were planning on making the 8:53 a.m. train from Westmont. We knew that wasn't going to happen when we weren't even close and it was a couple minutes 'til. So we decided we would take the next one which left at 9:49 a.m. We pulled into the parking lot a little after 9:30. We were getting more layers on (because of the snow) by the car when we heard a train coming and the lights were flashing at the station. We both freaked out and I looked at the time and it was 9:39. I asked William "Was the train coming at 9:49 or 9:39????" He's said "I don't know....RUN!" ahhaha......just picture us running through the parking lot, trying to finish getting our extra layers on and making it to the train.....once we got up there we realized the train was going the other way and didn't even stop at the station. We were right the whole time and we still had 10 min. until our train came. Dad called us while we were waiting for the train to see how things were going. William told him the embarrassing story and dad laughed and called us "Hillbillies" :)

The train came and we were finally on our way downtown!

We didn't really have a plan when we got there, we knew we wanted to make it to the Water Tower Place to shop and we wanted to see the big tree.

William in Macy's!


Us by the HUGE Christmas Tree! It really put me in the mood for Christmas Day......

Out of all places we could eat lunch, we ate at a McDonalds...but I will admit it was a pretty cool Mcy D's. There were two levels to the place and I told William to get us a window seat upstairs, while I waited for the food. When I came up to meet him...he had the BEST seat in the house!

Here are a few more pictures from the day.....we rode in a "free" trolley to get back to Union Station...which was really nice!

We had a REALLY fun day! William bought a new shirt and a shirt for Ryan for Christmas & I bought a new purse. We couldn't find much we wanted to buy, but it was just fun being together and walking around town.

Us on the train on our way back to the car.....