Besides the fact that Emily fell out of her bed we all had a good night. Emily is fine she just has bruise on her left knee. And she shows it to everyone everywhere, kind of like a scar from an epic battle!

After we had a delicious breakfast we left to a nearby liquor store where I found out that they sold at lest one type of beer I had on my wish list. And I was successful!

Soon we left towards Chicago, the next major city of our trip! It would be a just over 3 hour drive but first we forgot to get gas near the hotel and we encountered the most interesting gas station of the trip.

Close to Chicago we decide to make one more stop at a Starbucks for a mini lunch and to make sure had a washroom break before we ended up in Chicago traffic.

When we drove downtown we immediately felt like being in a different city as New York, Toronto, Atlanta, New Orleans and others. Not sure why but maybe it is the different architecture or the fact that there are overhead subways?

We also lost our GPS signal just before we entered the last Kilometer but we made it safely and without issues to our Holiday Inn hotel along the river near the MART.

According to the car it was 32 Celsius outside but it felt like barely 20, we guess that is why Chicago is also called the Windy City?

The hotel room has a nice view as it is on the 22nd floor and we are partially lucky with the view. The hotel rate is also great as it includes free parking, in some hotels in the downtown area they charge 60-70$/night.

After we all relaxed a little bit, we decided to go outside and visit Millennium Park and maybe do some more shopping. Millennium park is not even 2km from our hotel and so we took the stroller and started walking.

It was literally one block to far for Emily to see the Cloud Gate, the famous and oddly formed gigantic mirror, with her own eyes as she fell a sleep between waiting for the traffic light and he other side of the 6 lane street. But we still made some pictures.

From there we went on and looked at the Crown Fountain, a fountain with integrated video display. Here Emily woke up again as he water blew in her face…

We ended up taking a short break at the Park Grill, they had an outdoor area on the ice rink where we had a drink and a bite to eat. Emily’s got some M&M’s for the first time and she was mesmerized by the letter on them, the M from Mama and thus she did not want to share any with me.

Next stop was the new, but already iconic Apple Store at the riverfront. The store is built on a gigantic staircase and it’s roof looks like it had a gigantic MacBook Air.

We also had to stop at the Disney Store flagship location. They had so much things we hadn’t seen yet, Emily got out of the store with a new stuffed belle.

After we left the store we walked back over the river walk to our hotel and after a bath for Emily everyone went to bed. Daniëlle scored a bed for her and bunny. I scored a bed with Emily, Ariel, Princess Sofia and Belle. Am I lucky or not?