Just booked a trip to Chicago.  I figured since this is a big birthday, I might as well go to the home territory… plus, my grandma is worrying me.  And the boys need to meet their other great-grandma and their cousins.  And I miss the Museum of Science & Industry… and maybe we should go to the aquarium.  And walk around the park.

This will be my second trip to Chicago ever where I am not staying with family.  Last time it was because I needed to be across the street from the hosptial… so I imagine this trip will feel… different.  We’ll be downtown.  It will be the first time Donovan goes to Chicago. It will be the first time I am driving in the city.  It will be… really the first time I am there completely as a grown-up I guess.  It kind of makes me want to cry, like a big baby.

Still… I need to see my family.  I should book one of those night time cruises for the boys where they tell the story of the cow and the fire.  I used to love going on those when I was a kid.