Staycation

The end of August, my parents took the kids for a couple days and let Dan and I have a "staycation". Dan had some things going on at work that he couldn't get away so instead of having my parents come here and us going away, we stayed home. It worked out well because I got some house projects done during the day and then we had 2 evenings to ourselves. A friend of ours (Kalinda) from Rochester, MN was in Chicago that week so we decided to go see her and her husband/new baby. We went early and walked around Navy Pier, then we met up with them for dinner at Harry Carays. It was a beautiful night although it started raining just before we got to our car. Good timing!
The second night, we decided to stay in and have Chinese food and watch a movie. With the kids staying up later, it's hard for us to just be at home and watch a movie so we thought we would take advantage of the quiet house.
We so appreciated my parents giving us a break but of course we were thankful to have our family all back together again!