We’ve missed the tulips the last couple years as we always forget they bloom in April and May. This year was finally different! The weather was perfect, the tulips were at their peak and love was in the air. If 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…