CHICAGO
We took a weekend road trip to Chicago during Aug 2-5. We had a super fun time! The drive is about 6 hours if you don't have babies. It took us about 8 hours each way because of breastfeeding and road work. It wasn't too bad though because the boys were easy to entertain and slept a lot. We stayed in a hotel near the airport, away from the expensive hotels in the city. On Saturday morning, we met up with the Hill family to go to the beach at Lake Michigan. All summer long, Tanner has constantly been asking to go to the beach. So it was really cool to be able to tell him, "We're going to the beach today!!" And we were pleasantly surprised at how beautiful it was! Tanner touched the water a little bit here and there. But he mostly dug in the sand, filling sand buckets, dumping them, and filling them again. Jeremy had some bonding time with Brian's little girl. She's 3. He played out in the waves with her. Funny thing, the water was really shallow, so Je...