Mommy goes to Chicago

This weekend I traveled to Chicago for Erin's Bachelorette party. Erin is one of my best friends from college. She traveled to our wedding from Germany, so I wanted to make the trip out to see her since I had never been to Chicago before. It was so hard leaving my boys!!!!! I missed them so very much. I got cute pictures while I was gone and also got to FaceTime.
We have had some pretty rough weather this winter, but clearly we have had nothing compared to Chicago. The Tuesday before I went, it was -25 windchill here at home, which was miserable. I was in Chicago during their "warmer" weather and they had 5 inches of snow the day after I got there and it was a nice warm 9 degrees without the windchill. It is NO JOKE!!!! the crazy thing is that the people there don't think anything of it. People ride bikes and go running in this stuff. They also put scarves on their dogs....if you have to put a scarf or a turtleneck on your dog where you live, you probably shouldn't live there. It was COLD!

Luckily, Erin's mom was awesome and got us a limo for the night so we didn't have to brave the freezing cold which was nice. We were still pretty bundled up though.

Missing my little man

In the limo!

Lake Michigan...Yes...that's a lake

Doesn't it look like a nice tropical vacation there???

The BEAN in downtown

 It was a rather cold stop to get out of the limo and take pictures by the lovely frozen lake Michigan