I have decided that I have to finish my Chicago posts before September ends!
We didn't do much on the morning after Labor Day. Josh wasn't feeling well after he ate entirely too much the night before. That is the truth and he would tell you that also =). Anyway, we were meeting someone that I work with through work--does that make sense? She is from Chicago so she took us all to lunch at Lou Malnati's. Once we got ready, we walked to Lou Malnati's and had some yummy pizza. My children were a bit fidgety--maybe because it takes awhile to get the pizza. Anyway, it was good and it was hot outside. Once we left, we decided that we should squeeze in yet another day at the beach. After all, the weather was perfect for it.
The beach had people, however it was quite obvious that it was no longer a weekend or a holiday. We enjoyed some more swimming and relaxing. For some reason, water & sun de-stress me--majorly. It was refreshing. Since we didn't have watches or anything, we decided we would leave when the shadows of the buildings got long and took most of the sun from the beach. It worked great. We took a water taxi to the beach--very beautiful, BTW. We decided to try the Blue Trolley to go back to the hotel. The Red Trolley that stopped at our hotel finished running for the summer after Labor Day. Anyway, the blue trolley worked out, we just had to walk a bit further than we did with the red one.
We decided that we would have a shopping night. Upon request (by Aliyah) after she had seen it on our tour, we went to dinner at Rainforest Cafe--late. We went to all of our favorite shops on Michigan and vicinity. We made our stop at the American Girl store and WOW did we pick a perfect time to go! It was like a private shopping experience. Our children were the ONLY ones in the whole store. We spent about an hour in there while they decided what they wanted. This trip, they pretty much wanted the whole Bitty Baby deal. Aliyah also got Kit's dog & scooter. Bags in hand, we headed over to Hershey's. Once again, we did dessert before dinner. Keirah had some chocolate wonder and Aliyah had a "chocolate muffin" as she calls it.
I couldn't do more than 2 bites as it was very rich!
We proceeded to Water Tower Mall. We visited Coach =). I had the privilege of a private shopping experience there as well. I resisted the temptation to get a beautiful full-sized purse even though my beloved husband was cool with me getting one. Instead, I got some Coach perfume--which is my new fave and a Coach Zoe Mosaic Clutch wristlet. I love the deep chocolate brown. My reasoning behind the clutch wristlet is that after lugging my normal Coach purse with all of the stuff in it gets heavy--particularly with two kids in tow and lots of bags. I now switch--if I don't need to carry everything, I carry the clutch. I absolutely love it. 
Yes, the elephants. They make noise and come to life quite often. Neither of the girls were very sure of it, particularly Keirah. She jumped into my arms as soon as it started. We explored a few other things while waiting for our meal. The food was great! Aliyah declared it to be her favorite. 
As you can see, Keirah has her eyes on the elephant in the picture. We headed back out and to our hotel. Everyone was pretty tired as it was about 10:30. When we arrived back at our hotel, we turned on the TV to catch a blurb about Olympic athletes arriving in Chicago for the Oprah show to be taped in Millennium Park. Since our hotel was only 2 blocks from MP, we decided to go. I knew that Oprah taped in the morning, however we were unsure of the time, but decided to leave between 8:30 & 9:00 to head over there. The rest of the Oprah post is to follow.
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