the koch side of life: chicago

Oh my goodness, I have been meaning to post this for so long! Better late than never I suppose... For Labor Day Weekend we got to go to Chicago for a family friend's wedding. It was an amazing trip! Neither Ryan, Kelsey or I had been there before so we had lots of fun doing touristy things and exploring. Here is some documentation from our trip.

My sweet friend from high school Melissa lives in Chicago now so we got to meet up with her for lunch on our first day in the city. Delicious Italian Beef sandwiches and great company!

LT Reunion

Then we were off to a Cubs game at Wrigley Field. It was a blast, a day game on Thursday against the Brewers (which is close so there were a lot of fans for both teams). It was a close game the whole time and the Cubs were down in the 9th, but the Cubs came back to score 4 runs and won on a walk off hit - very exciting baseball, we were glad we stayed until the end.

Go Cubs Go, Go Cubs Go, Hey Chicago what do you say, Cubs are gonna win today!

After the very exciting win we headed down Clark Street for some Cubbie shots and family bonding.

LFG Shoutout

Super awkward family picture with our brother's jersey

Ryan was high on life, good baseball and Cubbies shots and attempted a kart-wheel in the street.
Good try honey.

We decided it was probably time for some food so we stopped at Lou Malnati's for some authentic Chicago Pizza.... oh.my.goodness. YUM!

The next day we headed out to see some more Chicago sights, first stop Millennium Park.

Cooling off in the water

The Bean!

I love this one!

Chicago Dog deliciousness

Ryan cooled off in The Crown Fountain (you can't really tell in these pictures, but these are glass bricks and there are huge screens behind them that show pictures of Chicagoans and local art - pretty neat).

View from the glass box at the top of the Sears (Willis) Tower.... this totally freaked my out!

Then we went on an architectural boat tour on the river. It was a very nice break for our legs.

The view from the John Hancock tower, very pretty!

Confession... we didn't actually shop on Michigan Ave. There were
too many sights to see, but we did walk down it.

The bean at night!

We rested a bit on the great lawn and listed to a free concert at the Jazz Festival, gorgeous evening!

Then a stop by Buckingham Fountain to enjoy the light and music show.

Early morning walk around the city... very nice. We wanted to see a few things quickly before getting ready for the wedding.

I got to enjoy my first Pumpkin Spiced Latte of the season. Yummy! And it was slightly cool in Chi-town that morning so it truly was a perfect first fall drink.

Rose Family Prepping for the Wedding - keeping it classy :)

No pics from the wedding... too busy having fun! The next day we continued our tour of the town, trying to fit as much in as we could on our last day!

After our morning walk we split up and went to The Adler Planetarium, The Shedd Aquarium, The Field Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago. No pictures from this but it was fun and interesting... I probably wouldn't go again though (I'm not too much of a museum girl).