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…
We love botanic gardens and go to the Chicago Botanic Garden a couple times a year. For this week’s Date Day, however, we decided to try out the nearby Friendship Botanic Gardens in Michigan City, Indiana. We were not disappointed. Read more…
What do you get when you combine Lewis and Clark with Dora and Boots? You get the two of us spending our Date Day hunting Trolls at the Morton Arboretum. If you haven’t done this yet, get out and do Read more…
It was a perfect day, so we made plans to park in downtown Chicago, walk to Lincoln Park Zoo and have an outdoor lunch somewhere along the way. With memories of Jonathon Brandmeier’s The Moo-Moo Song dancing in our heads, Read more…
How is it that we’ve never been to Cantigny (rhymes with beanie)? We’re aware of the park since our kids have been there on field trips, but we had no idea how much we were going to enjoy our Date Read more…
We got a bit of a late start today so we had to stay relatively close to home. Since the weather was perfect, we decided to spend our Date Day at one of our favorite local hiking spots – Bailly Read more…
Aliotta, Haynes and Jeremiah were on to something when they wrote about Lake Shore Drive. On a sunny day, there may not be a more picturesque drive anywhere. Today was sunny. Rather than drive, however, we ditched the car and Read more…
Waterfall Glen has a waterfall and is located in a glen. Interestingly though, the waterfall has nothing to do with the name. The DuPage county forest preserve was named in 1973 to honor Seymour “Bud” Waterfall, an early president of Read more…
Question: What do deer, a snake and cheeseburgers make? Answer: A pretty good Date Day. Today’s destinations were Black Partridge Forest Preserve in Lemont and Hackney’s in Palos Park. We started our day at smallish, and little known, Black Partridge Read more…
Picnics and pig’s ears and peckers, oh my! Spring has finally sprung! After weeks of indoor Date Days, we were able to break out our hiking shoes, tear off our clothes (ok, our coats) and spend the day outside. And Read more…