Cindy decided she wanted to take Kyann to Chicago for a couple of days while Shane was fishing in Canada. She asked me to go along. We took the train. It was only an hour and a half late going. Here they are in Mt Pleasant waiting for the train. Kyann was really good and liked looking out the window. We took a picnic lunch and eventually Kyann got tired. She fell asleep watching a movie and slept until we were almost to Chicago.
We stayed at the Embassy Suites Hotel. It had two rooms and two beds. Cindy got a crib for Kyann. We weren't there very long before Kyann started rearranging furniture. She liked our room. She also liked the cab rides and eating in restaurants.
This was the view from our room. It was a very nice hotel with a cooked to order breakfast. It was only about half a mile from Navy Pier and Millennium Park. Looking back we definitely should have taken a stroller because that was too far for Kyann to walk and Cindy ended up carrying her a lot.
After we got settled we took a taxi to Rain Forest Cafe for supper. Kyann liked the animals. I liked the volcano we had for desert! 
We went back to the hotel for a swim. They had the strangest pool I have ever encountered. It was like a lap pool. Only about 10 foot wide but 30 foot long. Kyann had a good time but look at Cindy's face. There were some other kids there that had a beach ball and she couldn't understand why she couldn't play with it. We stopped and got her a ball the next day so she would have one to play with. She has no fear this child.
The weather was great while we were there. It rained a little while we were in the Rain Forest Cafe but the rest of the time is was sunny and pleasant. Wednesday morning we went to Navy Pier. Kyann had a good time chasing the ducks. Don't know what she would have done if she had caught one.
Next we went to the Children's museum. She wasn't quite sure about all the kids. But she liked different parts of it. Here she is playing in the water part. They had raincoats for everyone. Each size was a different color. She wanted a yellow one but purple was her size.  |
| Picnic with Cindy |
One of her favorite things was the puppet show. She was very happy putting on a show for me. But then some other kids discovered the puppets and it didn't go as well. They were a little bossy and she is just learning to share. Her favorite thing of all and where we spent the most time was the store and kitchen. They had shopping carts and baskets. She would fill a basket with food and take it upstairs to the little house kitchen and play with it. Then she would load it all up in the basket and take it down to what she called the cave. It was a place for construction under the little kitchen. Again not every one was well behaved and i think that confuses her. Their were several schools there for a field trip I think and it got pretty noisy.
We went to Bubba Gumps for lunch and it was really good. Cindy got a frozen strawberry drink with flashing lights at the bottom. Pretty cute. and tasty too.
After lunch Cindy and Kyann rode the Merry-Go-Round and the Farris Wheel. Kyann asked Mar Mar if she was coming on the Farris Wheel. Mar Mar did not go. But she liked it Silly girl! 
Our last stop of the day was Build A Bear. Kyann picked out a cat and we named him boots. She did not like the noise of the filling machine and would not step on the peddle, but she did all the motions with the heart she put inside. She also did not like the bath because of the noise it made. We were going to go swimming that evening but by the time we had supper she was pretty tired so we decided to get up in the morning and hoped there would not be many people at the pool.
After breakfast we headed to the pool and had it too ourselves for over an hour. Then a few more people came but it was not crowded. As you can see Kyann had not forgotten what she learned in her swimming lessens last year. 
About ten we decided to head to Millennium Park. It was about a half mile from our hotel. Again a stroller would have been an asset. This is a picture of me under the Cloud Gate. It was pretty cool and I have a picture of me taking a picture of me. We headed over to the tower fountains and wadding pool. Kyann loved that. We took off her shoes and socks and shorts and she just ran through the water. Cindy said she wanted to take off her shirt too and go swimming ( in 1/2 inch of water). At each end are two towers that have pictures on them and every so often the pictures change. 
We had a really good trip. The worst part was waiting to get on the train at Union Station. By that time Kyann was tired and didn't want to walk and we were trying to hurry so we could get seats together. But we made it and made it home mostly on time. This is the end of this adventure. 
