the first night in Chicago

It is hard to believe that I am writing about a night that happened over a week ago! The time on our vacation flew by very quickly indeed!

We got out very late on our travel day. Dan and Bill worked most of the day; Steven and I spent most of the day cleaning in the house and getting everything ready to go. Bill took the dog to the kennel in his little truck and the dog jumped on him and they ended up in a ditch. Luckily, someone came along right away with a farm truck with a winch and pulled them out! Let's hear it for Good Samaritans!

Anyway, we got on the road in the evening. The drive went fairly smoothly, and we made it to Chicago in less than four hours, about 9PM local time.

Everyone was so tired we checked into our hotel (a new one to us, picked for its convenience to Grant Park and the museums, rather than our usual haunts in River North) and went pretty much straight to bed.

After being in bed for a little while, I started to hear booming sounds in the distance. I looked out the window and found fireworks over Lake Michigan! I could not get anyone else to wake up and watch them with me, but they were absolutely gorgeous!