Friday, September 04, 2009

Chicago Afternoon

Ben's awesome boss, Dan, gave us four tickets to a Cubs game last Tuesday. We decided to go since the kids weren't in school yet and neither of us have ever been to Wrigley Field. I decided to head down to the city a little early and walk around with the girls. It was a gorgeous day out. Not too hot and sunny. We walked around for 2 and 1/2 hours. The girls were worn out! Okay, so was I.

We walked to Millennium Park and played in the water area. looked at the bean sculpture. They had to get wet with their normal clothes on since I didn't bring any swimsuits. They dried pretty quickly though.


We got some ice cream and boy do these girls love ice cream.


We went to see the bean sculpture, also in Millennium Park. It's very cool. The girls loved this.


I even got a picture of all three of us from our reflection off the bean.


The bean sculpture.


We picked Ben up from his office and headed to Wrigley Field. We did get a little lost and when we asked a couple who were wearing Cub shirts where the stadium was they gave us a, "Oh, come on! Really?" Uh, yeah, do you see the Wisconsin plates buddy? I mean, really? Is your team so great that everyone must know where your stadium is? And by the way, your team sucks!
Anyway, I digress. We had really great seats. That was fun. But truly, the inside of the stadium was a little gross. Now, you can't tell in this picture below but it is of Eddie Vedder, the lead singer of Pearl Jam, who threw out the first pitch. Kind of cool!


Another view of the field.

Ben and the girls. Does this score tell you anything about the game? The Cubs were pathetic! Right after we took this picture the score went to 12 to 5. By the time we got in the car the score was 15 to 5. Oh my goodness, so pathetic.


Well, of course we had to get hot dogs! Alexis wasn't really happy with me for taking her picture while eating a hot dog. I kept badgering her though and she did this for me:


Audrey eating her hot dog.


Overall, we had a very pleasant afternoon and evening, even though the Cubs sucked. Okay, I've said that enough.

2 comments:

Yours, Mine, &, Crazy Daisy said...

Love the hot dog shots!

Dane said...

Are you sure you want you blog private . . . think of all the publicity you would get! You might even get more free tickets, lol!