Chicago Day 2:

So we are on day two of our Valentines getaway. The kids woke up early, and were ready to start the day. After a great breakfast at the hotel we were off to Navy Pier, to go to the Children's Museum. The kids had fun Building there own Skyscraper, digging for Dinosaur bones, putting out fires,putting on puppet shows and doing much, much more. After playing for awhile we were all getting hungry so we decided to try out Bubba Gumps. While we were waiting for our table to be ready we watched a magic show for a little while.
Then we finally got to eat and it was great food and a great experience. They have these License plates that say run Bubba run or stop Bubba stop and that is how you get your server's attention that you need something. It was great.
From there went down to Build a Bear where the kids used there gift certificates and had fun picking out an animal and then picking out what outfit they wanted for there new friends. Ariel picked out a dye dyed Teddy bear that she named Carly, Landon got a camouflaged Teddy bear which he named Fire, then Zane picked out an animal which i think is very fitting to his character a Monkey which he named OOH-OOH AHH-AHH. He then picked out a funky outfit that says video champ on the shirt. So fitting for him.
Then because of my keen eye for deals. I noticed some coupons where if you spent so much you can get a free drawstring back pack for you and your animal. So it happened to work out that the kids gift certificates were for that amount. So instead of getting the regular card board boxes to put there animals in they decided to just keep them in there backpacks. Which it made it easier for our travels.
After that we headed out to the park to look at some of the snow sculptures people have made with the snow. We then headed back to the hotel, we were all tired and needed to rest.
So then later that night we went to the Water Tower Place. I thought that we would make it without ever getting an American Girl Doll. But nope as soon as we walked towards the Water Tower. Ariel saw the store and she was all gung-ho about going in. So we went in for a little bit and we were not in there long when Landon asked"Mom can the boys go downstairs for a little bit."lol Ariel kept looking at the dolls and we knew what her next question would be. She wanted a doll. So we told her that she could use her Christmas money and birthday money to get one if she wanted too.But she would also need a little help from us, so she was to not ask for anything else during the rest of the weekend. So she asked to walk around for a little bit so we did. Then she came to a decision that she wanted the doll. So we went back and she got the one she wanted. So now i guess now we are into American Girl Dolls.lol
After that we walked down to Gino's Pizza, where we had to wait in line with a very impatient Landon. He was extremely tired from getting up so early. So after we got a seat and ordered our pizza and appetizer, he ended up falling asleep. So we just asked for them to put it in a box and we got a cab and went back to the hotel. Where everyone ate a little and then headed for bed. It was a long day. We needed our rest for day 3, our final day in Chicago:)