Weekend

On Saturday we went downtown and braved the Taste of Chicago. Understand I am not really into crowds and this event attracts HUGE crowds. I also can not stand people who stop in front of you as if they are the only people in the world. Also trying to get downtown with two small children is no small feat.

With that we rode the El train down which is Big Cubby’s favorite thing to do. He loves the train. As soon as we got off he asked to ride the train again. To his disappointment we told him we would ride the train later that we were going to a big party. He did not want to go to any party. After we dragged him up out of the tunnel, we made it over to Millennium Park, the new downtown park in Chicago.

One of the features are these tall two rectangle blocks that are fountains across from each other. Between them kids splash in no-depth water. On the blocks are these huge pictures of people smiling, winking, whatever. Every so often the blocks spew out water. Check out the photo.

Big Cubby talks and talks about how cool the fountains are. But he is afraid of the fountains. He doesn’t like the water coming out from the mouths if he’s standing there, but 100 yards away, he talks a good game.

So we leave there and head over to Grant Park for the Taste. As soon as we are in a safe distance Big Cubby asks to go back to the fountains. Ha!

We walk through the entrance of the Taste and buy tickets to purchase food. For those who don’t know, the Taste is a big street fair downtown where restaurants set up booths and sell food.

Luckily the weather was beautiful because I would not have been able to handle all the people if it was hot like it has been. Walking through the area is like cutting through a mosh pit sometimes with the occasional group of idiots who stop suddenly.

A nice feature this year (well, nice since we have kids) is the Fisher Price area. For your information Fisher Price is celebrating its 75 Anniversary with a traveling exhibit (read big ad campaign). They had a set up with all their toys for the kids to play with. Big Cubby played with some trains. Did I mention he LOVES TRAINS and Little Cubby played with a few baby toys.

We had to drag a crying Big Cubby away when we decided to get something to eat. I mean that is what we were there for. The next obstacle was to figure out what food we wanted to eat. We had cheezborgers from the Billy Goat (made famous by Saturday Night Live), barbeque pork sandwich from Sweet Baby Rays, pizza slice from Connie’s Pizza and chocolate covered cheesecake on a stick from JR’s Cheesecake. Once stuffed, we watched the diving show which had a pirate theme that Big Cubby liked. He liked them diving into the water “looking” for the mermaid. We watched a group of karate experts from the gym I rarely go to jumping, kicking and breaking boards and such.

We left full and tired. Sunday we went for a long walk. I am talking about 6 miles. We left our neighborhood and walked along the lake. We stopped at a beach to rest and have a snack then headed back.

Monday we chilled out at home. Little Cubby’s schedule was off so he had a lot of nighttime waking. It probably did not help that the neighbors outside were having their own fireworks show. So we didn’t go see the fireworks because it was just too late for the boys and with the weekend we had we were just pooped out.

That was our weekend. I hope everyone had a great weekend. I will post pictures later.