Memorial Day Weeekend 2010

We had an exciting Memorial Day weekend this year! David is off in Illinois doing training for 3 weeks, and we had a free plane ticket from air miles so we thought it would be a great opportunity to have a cheap, easy mini vacation. We got all set so that I would fly out of Nashville and SK would have a fabulous weekend with Nana and Grandpa! Of course since David is out of town we ALL got sick - SK spiked a fever and a rash on Sunday and Monday, I got strep throat Tuesday - Thursday, and then Friday was the day we are supposed to hit the road!!! Luckily everyone was fully contained and not contageous by that point, so the trip was on. I asked daycare to keep missy up until I got there on Friday for us to head out on our 4 hour ride so she could sleep in the car and guess what - they let her go on to sleep. Needless to say, the ride up left a LOT to be desired, and her little mood when we made it to Nana and Grandpa's house was not the very best. Thankfully Saturday brought a new start to the craziness that was the week before - SK was sweet to her Nana and Grandpa, I made it safely into Chicago, and no one had a fever!

Nana has become quite the photographer and was able to get some precious pictures of our little one during her visit...

A few hours away in the tour de Mid-West, David and I got to see Chicago on Saturday (the Museum of Natural History, a sunset cruise on Lake Michigan, and yummy Giordanno's pizza), St. Louis on Sunday (the arch, the Budweiser Clysdales) and Chamaign on Monday (where his training is - we saw University of Illinois). I have pictures of all of this that I will post later, I don't have the card reader with me. The biggest event of all of that stuff was the train de-railment on our way back from St. Louis!!! Luckily we were not injured, but several othes were. Can we not go anywhere without travel drama?!?!