Barb’s Christmas Present weekend in Chicago




The view from our room

Ed had given Barb tickets to the Bulls game for Saturday night, January 22 so we made a long weekend of it.

First we met our friends Judy and Dale in Aurora for a long lunch and then headed for downtown Chicago to check into the Michigan Avenue Marriott Courtyard.


As they have in the past, they upgraded us to a corner room and it was on the top floor, floor 24. What a great view of the lake frozen over.



Lunch at Bergoffs

 First we went around the corner to the Apple store and talked to them about a question that Ed had with his new iPad. Then we walked up to Water Tower and the Hot Tix booth but didn’t see anything that we wanted to see that night, so we had a sandwich in Water Tower and headed back to the hotel for an early evening. It was much too cold to walk around Michigan Avenue as we usually do.



Saturday morning we had a 2 ½ hour tour of two city theaters, the Cadilac Palace and the Bank of America, which was the Shubert Theater. What fun it was hearing about the history of these two great theaters.


Barb ready for the Bull's game

Lunch was at the Bergoff's on Adams. This is one of the oldest restaurants in the City of Chicago and a long time favorite of both of us.

Then we took a cab to Holy Name Cathedral to see it and it is very impressive as to how they have restored it after the major fire that they had.

We spent the rest of the day looking at coats for Barb and Ed but found nothing and then it was time to go to the Bulls game.



We drove out to Billy Goat’s Tavern to have their famous Cheese Burgers before heading over to the game.


We got to the game early so it was fun watching everyone warm up. The game should have been a blow-out but Cleveland kept it close in the last quarter before the Bulls got serious and won by about 12 points.

At the game

 We awoke on Sunday morning to a beautiful cold day. But at least the sun was shining and the entire city seemed ready for the Green Bay game, it was too bad they lost.

We met our friends Mike and Sue at the Trump Towers for brunch and spent the next 3 hours eating and catching each other up on our recent cruises. They left Ft. Lauderdale on a cruise ship the same day we arrived on our trip, so it was fun just sitting and talking about things we did. We also talked about their upcoming wedding - what a special day that will be!!

We left the city at 2:30pm and drove home to watch a disappointing football game with the Bears losing to Green Bay. But all-in-all it was a fun weekend in Chicago.

Lunch at Trump Towers