After we dropped the kids off at Sky Lodge Christian Camp, Matt and I had a whole week to ourselves. We spent the first part of the week doing, well, not much of anything. I got ready for the new school year, whoo hoo. But we did take time out for us. We went to Chicago and spent a lazy, pamper ourselves time at the Amalfi Hotel. It was so relaxing. Here is our view from our hotel window.
The room was average size. Nothing really that special. But here it is anyway.
I think our favorite place in the hotel was the fitness room. I miss it already. We only spent one night at this place. so there wasn't much we could do in our limited time. But the hotel had free evening cocktails, so we tried that. The lounge area was kinda small for the number of people that were in there so we left after one drink and went across the street to Harry Caray's Italian Steakhouse.
Which we also could see from our room window. It was pricey, but good. Then again everything, in my opinion, was a little pricey. But price aside, we enjoyed ourselves and that was the whole point of the vacation. Of course the next day we checked out and the then tooled around down town Chicago, but after awhile we got frustrated with the traffic and headed home. Turns out President Obama was in town and Transformers 3 was being filmed so there were several streets that were blocked off and that made traffic a nightmare.
Matt loved the busy city and handled the traffic brilliantly, I just felt claustrophobic. Thankfully the good Lord gave me this man as my husband who, is a calm get through busy streets while taxi's pass you in the parking lane, kind of driver. Which makes me, a normally stressed out driver, able to sit back, enjoy the view, and make the occasional comment about crazy taxi drivers.
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