A Main Street that stretches over a half-mile with over 125 boutiques, galleries and shops? 28,000 square-feet of antiques? Ireland in Illinois? A new house on Lake Michigan? It’s all inside this week’s Date Day adventure to Galena. Usually our 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…
A leopard chasing a bird, penguins that still smell and finding out what zoo animals taste like. For this week’s Date Day, we headed to Chicago’s own Brookfield Zoo. Its been a few years since we’ve been to Brookfield, so Read more…
Our first Date Day was September 2, 2015. We went to Michigan City, explored antique stores, had a nice lunch and started our adventure. Today, we marked 139 weeks in a row by going to Crown Point, IN and doing 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…
Boats, Bubbles and Burgers. What do you call a river that was once used as an open sewer by the Union Stock Yards? One that, with so many animal entrails dumped into it, began to bubble with methane gas? Hint, Read more…
Ten thousand Indian artifacts, eight thousand Toby jugs and a fried bologna sandwich. How can that not make for a great Date Day? Day two of Spring was too cold to spend outside, so we continued our tour of lesser Read more…
It was cold outside today, unseasonably cold. Too cold to do anything outside, so we decided to go to the park – the indoor park. How many of you have been to the Garfield Park Conservatory? Probably not many. Most Read more…