7 Year Itch?

This past Sunday we celebrated SEVEN years of Marital Bliss.  Haha!  OK, it hasn't all been bliss, but it has truly been 7 years and it is very difficult for me to believe it!  I feel like it was just yesterday that we, mere kids, walked down the aisle together after saying our "I do's" and began our life together.  We have been a great team over the past 7 years.  We have had challenges, like any marriage, and we have had triumphs.  We have seen each other through graduate school, selling and buying 2 houses, spending a year apart, infertility then having a baby...and we have held hands through it all.  I would do it all over again in a heartbeat and I look forward to the next 7 years!  No Seven Year Itch here! :)

To celebrate, we "ditched" the kid.  Oh, I mean Keagan had a spend-the-night party with Gama and Poppy for the weekend.  This meant we could be Josh and Janine, and not daddy and mommy.  So we went to Chicago for the weekend.  It was wonderful!  I have never been and have ALWAYS wanted to go!  We didn't have much time but we had a BLAST.  It was a nice way to reconnect and recharge. 

Josh made all the plans, and they were wonderful.  He booked us a hotel room on Michigan Avenue in a fancy-shmancy hotel, looked up things we could do and places to eat.  We shopped, we ate, we did an architectural boat tour, we ate some more, we walked around everywhere, we saw Joel McHale from The Soup.  We relaxed and enjoyed being a couple for a few days.

We were greeted with chocolate dipped strawberries and champagne upon arrival into our room!  YUMMY! 

 View from our room...Michigan Avenue

 Breakfast at Yolk.  Before:

 After:  (stuffed French toast with raspberry and cream cheese...didn't eat again until dinner!)

 The swimming pool on our floor (14th!) in the hotel:  Can we say CRAZY?!!

**Celebrity Sighting!!**  It's Joel McHale!!  We were only 15 feet from him! :)  We LOVE The Soup!

 Architecture Boat Tour:

 The corn-cob buildings:

 This building is one of the largest buildings in the world:  it has its own zipcode!!

 A lesson in perspective:  The black building in the center is the Sears Tower.  The building to the right looks like it is as tall as the Sears Tower...but look at its reflection in the Sears Tower.  It is only about half the size!  CRAZY!

 The building in the center with the yellow ball on top of it is our hotel.  The Intercontinental Hotel.

 The "Champagne Bottle" building: 

 The "Bean"  Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park. 

Billy Goat Tavern.  Where they order for you!  It is an interesting place...known for being rude to patrons, and don't ask for fries with your burger!

Can't go to Chicago and not have deep-dish pizza!!  DELISH!

Another fun trip under our belts!  I love to travel and I especially LOVE to travel with my husband.  We always have so much fun and I cannot wait until our next trip!!  Love you, Josh!!