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Chicago Trip 2011

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As i mentioned in a previous post, on July 14th we started our road trip to Chicago. I had a doctors appointment early that morning so we left right after (around 10ish). Jenny (the GPS) said that it would take 13hours to compleet. Jenny is a little strange sometimes. She tends to send us the weirdest directions. Whenever we use her services, we need to double check her path with google. Anyway, we decided to do the trip it in 2 hops. That way we could stop at a hotel (Sienna loves hotels) and swim in the pool.

Lisa Driving

Sienna didn’t nap nearly as much as i thought she would. She is a good traveler though so i’m not complaining.

iPad entertainment rules!!

This iPad so rules!! We were able to look at maps, find restaurants, find hotels as well as provide entertainment for Sienna. Here, she is watching word girl.

The next day, we arrived after hanging out in rush hour traffic. Jenny (our stupid GPS) had us going through downtown instead of around the city. Big surprise, i should have known. Normally it would have been ok but at 4pm on a Friday, good luck. We got there around 5pm.

Rich and Theresa

Elvis

Dexter

Rich cooking pizzas on the grill

Rich rocked the gril as he always does!! The pizza was so good! i need to try it out sometime. I kinda forgot the steps though..Sienna and Dexter played a lot that weekend. Its so cool to have so much space for Sienna to run around.The hot dogs from this place (Superdog) wer sooo friggin good!! Lisa had requested this one. She read something online about it. I’d love to go back next time i’m in town. A bit pricey but well worth it. The entire lunch for 4 adults and one 4yo came in at about $40 not including the tip..We had to go visit the Bean. The last time Sienna was here, she was so little. It was cool to bring her back and watch her excitement. 

The water falls were fun for her too. It was starting to get very hot and humid so it was a little crowded. She didn’t stay as long as i thought she would though.

Superman ice cream

Even though our trip was very short, we had a wonderful time with Rich, Theresa, Dexter and Elvis. We ended up driving back on Monday after an awesome breakfast. We did stop halfway only this time we didn’t go to our favorite Hampton Inn. Instead, we went to a Best Western UGH, huge mistake!! the water in the pool was murky which creeped me out. We didn’t stay long. At least the room was clean.

New rule, its got to be a Hampton Inn!!

Memorial weekend

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I took the day of on Friday because of the long memorial day weekend. It was really nice to hang out with Lisa and Sienna for 4 days.

Friday

Toys r us

Toys r us

We started off at Toys-r-us. I wanted to pick up more outdoor toys for Sienna. I didn’t see as much stuff as i thought i would. Here, Sienna and i sword fight with cute nerf swords.

run mommy run!

run mommy run!

We ended up going to the playground near Toys-r-Us them Wendys for lunch. I haven’t been to a Wendys in a long time. I forgot how good the burgers were..

Sienna loves to run. It’s very cute but she still isn’t 100% sure of herself yet. She’s almost there.

twerly slide

twerly slide

Sienna takes lisa for a ride on the twerly slide.

Saturday

Saturday we went on a mini road trip out to see Tammy and Zack at their new home upstate.

getting ready

getting ready

We’re getting ready to go on out very first mini road trip..

Sienna is ready

Sienna is ready

Gorilla decided to come along for the ride.

Made it

Made it

We made it in an hour and forty five minutes. The car performed great! It’s a very smooth ride and so much fun to drive. It’s cool being higher up and i love being able to see my miles per gallon go up and down depending on how i drive it. the book says it goes 27mpg on the highway but i got it up to 28.6!!! that’s my new game…

Out front

Out front

As soon as we stopped, Sienna ran around exploring the front of Tammys place. Her house is HUGE!! it’s very homey and has a lot of levels. I didn’t take any pictures of the inside. I have no idea why. Check out Lisas blog, she might have gotten some shots.

The back yard

The back yard

Lisa Tammy and Zack

Lisa Tammy and Zack

Zack and Sienna in the sandbox

Zack and Sienna in the sandbox

Lunch time!!

Lunch time!!

Zack

Zack

Zack is so cute…

Tammy, thank you for your hospitality. It was nice to see you again and lunch was awesome. We need to pickup some of those meat patties.

Sienna out

Sienna out

On the way back home, as predicted, Sienna falls asleep but not for long..

Sunday

popparatzi

popparatzi

Not much happened on Sunday. Here, lisa hounds Sienna on our little walk around the neighborhood.

more popparatzi

more popparatzi

tugging on her laces

tugging on her laces

Monday

We were invited to a Memorial Day BBQ by one of Lisas friends Geneva. It was nice to hang out with a bunch of parents of small children. The food was great and i discovered a yummy Smirnoff Ice Watermelon that is going to be my new summer BBQ drink!!

BBQ

BBQ

Phoenix and Sienna

Phoenix and Sienna

pogo

pogo

Sienna tries the pogo stick..

It was very nice of Geneva to invite us to the BBQ. We had a wonderful time.

The New Car

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Yup, we did it!! We finally bought a new car!

Lisa and i have been talking about getting a new car for quite a while now. The little Nissan was just getting too small for our family. It was 14 years old and falling apart. After going around and around in circles for the past couple of months, we finally settled on the Honda CR-V EX 4WD. It’s classified as a crossover SUV.

I wasn’t looking forward to going to the dealerships and dealing with the scumbag car dealers then i realized that in this day and age, i didn’t have to!! I created an email address and sent out requests to 5 different dealers. In no time at all, i got some quotes. Some good and some not so good.

Last Friday i was a little sick so i took the day off work. After downing some DayQuil i decided that we should go do a test drive. We loved it!! I do have to say that the car dealers are super sneaky and unless you buy cars all the time, you wouldn’t realize it until way later. Oh well, i think we got a good deal anyway.

Once we decided to buy the car, IT TOOK FOREVER TO GET OUT OF THE DEALERSHIP!!! Sienna was getting tired. She was so good but i didn’t expect to be there almost all day.

Honda CR-V

Honda CR-V

We got the “green tea” green with the tan interior. It looks really nice. I’m just a bit nervous at the Sienna spillage factor but oh well we’ll deal with it when it happens.

Front view

Front view

If you look closely, you can see Sienna in the passenger side seat.

Happy Lisa

Happy Lisa

Lisa looking so happy to be finally in the drivers seat.

Sienna in the passenger seat

Sienna in the passenger seat

not sure what to do

not sure what to do

Sienna keeps saying “oooh, new car”..

Street view

Street view

Now all i want to do is take a road trip. With the amount of money we spent, that’s exactly what we’ll have to do for vacation this year. I don’t think we’ll be flying anywhere anytime soon.