Second Anniversary: Headed to Chicago, Baby!!

We just got home from our second anniversary getaway...a trip nearly as polar opposite {ha ha! get it?} in climate from our wedding trip as we could get. Got married in Siesta Key and spent our second anniversary in and around Chicago. While the Windy City could have been much colder than it was, it was no tropical getaway!

We had a GREAT time - many memories made and many this-could-only-happen-to-us adventures were packed into our little vacation-let.

Our adventures began Sunday morning, when we packed up the car and headed out on the open road. Of course there was car karaoke:

Our first destination was Dell Rhea's Chicken. Have you heard of it? We hadn't, until less than a month before our trip, when we were watching the Duggars, and Josh and Anna stopped there on their road trip from Washington D.C. to Chicago. Ryan, who rarely looks up during the Duggars, began paying rapt attention and immediately added Dell Rhea's to our agenda.

If you've not heard of it, they are famous for their fried chicken basket, and they're a historical location on Route 66. Their whole story is pretty cool...you should check it out on their site. It tells how they got started back in the 30's and then almost had to close when Route 66 changed and it was no longer on the main path...but how they've made it!!

Ryan ordered the chicken basket they're famous for, and I ordered the chicken tenders, and I do believe it was the best fried chicken either of us had ever had. REAL chicken. Not fake chicken like we eat most places. :) And the biscuits - YUM!!!!!!

The menu says if you order the chicken basket, you should be prepared to wait 30 minutes to eat. They bring you the biscuits to keep you from starving to death while you wait. :) While we didn't have to wait anywhere near that full 30 minutes, we did find it very amusing that the family at the table next to us didn't so much have inside voices. The wife talked at length about texting Mary and Skyping with the husband's mom that afternoon - and a host of other things. So after meeting the table neighbors via eavesdropped conversation, our food arrived!!

We only ate half that and took the rest with us for later!!

After we left there, we headed to Schaumburg, Illinois, which was our home for the duration of the trip. We'd tried to find a hotel in downtown Chicago, but the price was three to four times as much per night as it was in the outskirts. So we sacrificed the view to stay in the burbs. Seriously stayed all three nights for less than the price of one night downtown. And our room was VERY comfortable, I might add. Not like our trip to Holland, when we started out in the communicable disease room.

I want to tell you about our trip to the Lincoln Park Zoo, but I fear that would make this the longest blog post known to man, so I'm going to call it quits for today - but come back tomorrow, because you won't want to miss that story!!!