Back in November we booked a weekend in Chicago with some neighbors over St Patrick's Day weekend. I did this 7 yrs ago with my sister and some girl friends but I was prego with Piper at the time! :) We piled in the minivan and headed out!
Wendy and Jason....Kyle and Sarah....and us!
We stopped for lunch in Leclaire and then we stopped right outside Chicago at Binny's, which is like an alcohol super store! It was pretty amazing!
We got checked into our hotel about 5ish and hung out in the hotel lobby until our dinner reservations at Weber Grill at 7:30. Our friend Kruse was able to meet us out for this trip too! (He met us the last time we were in Chicago and when we went to Nashville!) After we all ate WAY too much at dinner we found a bar and hung out some more. The NCAA games were on so we got into some of those good games and just had a good time!
We agreed to meet at 8:30 to watch the river dying right outside our hotel at 9 am. We were lucky enough to claim some seats inside the hotel so we didn't have to freeze outside! Score!
Jason, Wendy, Steve, Me, Sarah, Kyle and Kruse
It is crazy how green the river gets! So cool!
The gang! I love this picture!
We made our way to Billy Goats, which is a popular Chicago place to hang out. It's like an old school burger/bar....reminded me of The High Life here in Des Moines. http://www.billygoattavern.com/
It was busy but after about 30 minutes we scored a table! and we didn't leave that table for close to 4 hours! It was perfect! Then we figured we needed to venture out and see something else and regroup......ALL the bars had huge lines to get in so we decided to head back to the hotel and freshen up and drink some of our alcohol (for free!)
The view from our hotel room!
The hotel lobby bar was very busy too but once again we were able to score a table!
We hung out here for a couple hours while trying to figure out what we wanted to do for dinner. We finally decided to walk to Sweetwater. Steve and I had ate there our last time in Chicago so we knew what to expect and they said it was an hour wait (which was about the shortest wait time). However we got there and not even 5 minutes later we were seated! Wendy and Jason had wanted to go get pizza so they did their own thing and were going to meet us out later. The food and drinks were great, it wasn't that busy so we didn't feel rushed to get out of there so overall it was the perfect stop!
After dinner we wandered on and found another bar, with no line and we were able to get a nice bar area to stand by....and we stayed there for the rest of the night (well until we decided we were old and needed to get back to bed....about 11 pm)
There was dancing.....with Sarah and Steve...the rest of us laughed and watched!
Sunday we had brunch reservations at Brunch http://www.brunchit.com/menu/ It was so cute and so good! I totally recommend it!
Then we headed home! We made the drive back in about 5 hours and were back by 4:30 so we had time to wind down and such.
Overall a super successful (and expensive) weekend with my neighbors/friends! So glad we had the chance to do this! Not every often do the 6 of us do anything together without kids involved!
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