Every year we have a Chicago Christkindlmarket Date Day and every year we freeze our butts off. To make matters worse, by the time we visit, they’re usually out of the year’s commentative wine mugs. Today was finally different! It Read more…
We all love Chicago in the Spring, Summer and Fall, but tend to hunker down in the Winter and don’t get out as much. To help alleviate some of the Wintertime blues, we’ve created a list of our favorite Winter Read more…
Today our Date Day took us on a journey through three new exhibits at the Art Institute of Chicago. 1960’s Hairy Who, 1600-1800 Japanese Ukiyo-e and Tomma Abts’ modern abstracts. Each was interesting and compelling in completely different ways and Read more…
It was a little chilly and rainy, so we decided to continue our quest to visit all the lesser known museums around Chicago. We set the navigation system for Noble Square and soon found ourselves spending our Date Day at Read more…
Where can you find the Batmobile, a vintage Duesenberg collection, dozens of kiddie rides and a Show Biz Pizza place? Toss in four antique stores, military equipment and a jet plane or two and you’ve got the Volo Auto Museum. Read more…
Everything tastes better in a bacon bowl, Lord Farquaad doesn’t wear a crown and kneeling, naked nymphs are pretty cool. We learned all that, and much more, antiquing our way through Kankakee County on today’s Date Day. We actually got Read more…
Trains, chipmunks and lettuce. We love this time of year! The air is crisp and chilly, the leaves are starting to turn, and you can get just about anything flavored with pumpkin-spice. Today started out a little rainy, but we Read more…
Every year we plan to go to County Line Orchard in time to pick Honeycrisp apples and every year we’re a couple weeks late. Today’s Date Day changed that! We braved the 95-degree heat, hiked to the very end of Read more…
Where do you find a leaning tower, dozens of religious stained-glass windows and great pizza? Normally one would say Italy, but we didn’t have time to go all the way to Europe. Instead, we headed off to Niles, Evanston and Read more…
We’ve been talking about, and looking for, a “retirement home” for several years and have been driving our friends and family nuts every time we commit to a different part of the country. We’ve considered dozens of areas and looked Read more…