Chicago--Day 3

On the morning of our last day in Chicago, Abby gave me my mother's day present. She slept until 7 am with only one tantrum at 6 am. I didn't mention it in the previous post, but she had a hard time adjusting to: 1) the time change (7 am in Ann Arbor is only 6 am in Chicago), 2) the fact that I was sleeping in a much more comfortable bed than her only a foot away, and 3) that Beth and Dan don't necessarily want to get up at 5 in the morning on a weekend. On Saturday morning she woke up at 5 am and was screaming at me to get up. I pulled her into bed with me to try to get her back to sleep for at least an hour. She was resistant. Very resistant. She poked me, cried, yelled at me, asked for cereal every 5 minutes, and in general was a pain in the neck. We finally gave in at 6 am and got up. She was very crabby. But after some cereal she laid back down with me and slept for another hour. Hallelujah. Anyway, back to day 3.

She slept until 7 and then got up with Alex while I lazed in bed a bit longer. I arose to the smell of sizzling bacon, courtesy of Dan, and a highly entertained daughter, courtesy of Beth.

After our leisurely breakfast, we packed our things and headed to the Lincoln Park Zoo. It was a gorgeously sunny day, and mighty enjoyable.

Here are some random animal shots...some from the zoo and some not.

If I had to pick Abby's favorite part of the zoo though, it would be the stones on the bridge leading to the farmyard. She is such a little climber. She (and about 30 other kids) had so much fun stepping from stone to stone and climbing up them.

She was bummed when we took her away from them.

I got a good shot of the city skyline from that same bridge. Then I played around with it.

Before we packed up the car to head home we grabbed a yummy mother's day lunch at a barbecue restaurant. I had a delicious pulled pork sandwich and sweet potato fries.

I'm so glad we decided to do this! Thanks to Beth and Dan for showing us such a good time!