I had hoped that all 3 kids would be available to go downtown Chicago yesterday but it wasn't meant to be. Matthew's band camp schedule was inconvenient at best. He went from 8am - noon and 4:30pm - 9pm. What a way to kill the day. Since Bradley was working at church, I bribed him in to picking Matthew up at noon and dropping him back off at 4:30 so I could take Caitlyn downtown.
After we dropped Matthew off at school, we headed a few blocks away to the train station. We met Kelly, Sally, Sara & Ava there and we all took the train into the city together. On the train ride in, we decided it would be fun to go up to the Skydeck at the Willis Tower (pronounced Sears Tower as my kids would say). Poor Caitlyn was scared to death. She is afraid of heights. Always has been. She cannot walk on a second floor and look over a railing without backing away. I told her that she did not have to go up, that I would wait down on the ground with her if she wanted but she allowed peer pressure to win and she went with.
Turns out, she loved it! In an "I'm terrified but this is cool sort of way". She even went out on the plexiglass overhang thing!
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| Notice she is still hanging on the the wall though |
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| Kelly, Sally & Ava were in the overhang next to us |
After we got our fill of looking around on the beautiful, clear day, we hopped on a water taxi and took it down the Chicago River to Navy Pier.
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| Sally, Kelly and I on the water taxi |
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| Ava, Caitlyn & Sara |
We had a quick lunch at Navy Pier and headed to the beach there to watch the Chicago Air Show practice. It was a gorgeous day but I wasn't wowed by the air show this year. Normally, The Blue Angels perform but since their performances have been suspended because of budget issues, there was a big lack of wow.
It didn't have much effect on our fun at the beach though.
Chicago is a beautiful city in the Summer!
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