Chicago Weekend

What a fun weekend I had in Chicago with Tim and a bunch of our friends. Since I've been before I took the backseat on planning (which was super hard for me) and let him decide on what he wanted to do. He picked several things that I'd done before, but it's really so fun to see a city through the eyes on someone who has never been before.
We went for a wedding on Saturday outside of the city, but we thought it would be fun to go in early Thursday and do our sight seeing and adventuring. We took a super early flight so we were into the city by 9 AM Thursday.
We first stopped at the bean, of course. What's a trip to Chicago without seeing the bean? Look at Tim in the background. I thought this was such a cute picture.

We did lunch at the John Hancock Center, but we didn't get a picture.

We then headed back to Millenium Park with some friends before heading to Wrigley Field.

Afterwards we had a little rest for a bit (after a long morning of flying and sight seeing) before heading to dinner at Gibson's. It's an old school Chicago steak house, and it was delicious! My steak was cooked perfectly, and it was one of the most flavorful steaks I've had. Our side dishes and appetizers were unique and creative and were outside of the normal steakhouse box. I couldn't complain about a thing. 

After dinner we went to have drinks at the bar at the Waldorf Astoria. It was perfect. The atmosphere was low key, but there was ambiance that allowed us to chat at normal levels and have fun with a big group. Everyone met up there after a few of us headed to dinner at different places (there were 8 people total hanging around the city together on Thursday).

Friday was the Architecture Boat tour (this was my third one and it's still interesting) and lunch at the Chicago Pizzeria Lou Malnati's. Delicious! If you go to Chicago you just must go to this place. We had a ball!

Before doing that, though, I met Meghan for a spin class at FlyWheel. This spin class was like nothing else. When you visit Chicago, or if you live there, you have to go. The bikes tell you your resistance and speed, and when you leave the class you can check the estimated calories and distance during the class. I'm spoiled now and was sad to return to my normal gym spin class with nothing fancy this morning.

Saturday was wedding day! We crammed ourselves into the limos provided to take us offsite to the wedding, and I had to take a picture. It was a funny ride!

We had a ball at the wedding. So much so that I didn't remember to take very many pictures...

And that was our Chicago weekend! Now I'm back and ready to go with our own wedding planning. I've got lists to work through and I just hope it can all be done. The day is coming!