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…
We expected today to be an emotional day and it was. Our day was good, bad, stressful and poignant. It was a day that hit us on many levels and took serious reflection to write about. Today, we went to Read more…
Today was a fun day. One of those days we don’t plan, but rather decide the night before. We realized the Orchid Show was going on at the Chicago Botanic Garden (it is not GARDENS!) and decided to head north Read more…
We’ve been to all the big museums in Chicago many times and always enjoy our visits. Today, however, we decided to venture out to two of the lesser known museums on the north side of Chicago. We took in the Read more…
What to do on a cold February day? That was our question earlier this week as we strategized about our next Date Day. It was going to be too cold to stay outside and we had recently been to a Read more…
If you want to learn about the history of Chicago, there is no better thing to do than have a Chicago History Museum Date Day. The museum was founded in 1856, burned down during the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Read more…
We picked a Wednesday in January for our visit and were pleasantly surprised to find our Shedd Aquarium Date Day virtually empty. This gave us the opportunity to see everything we wanted to see without the usual hustle and bustle Read more…
For most people, a date at the movies is something special, but not something extraordinary. For us it was both since Tom had not been to a theater since 2000. Yep, the last movie he saw in a theater was Read more…
A Museum of Science and Industry Date Day is great any time, but something magical happens every year from November through early January when the Grand Rotunda is turned into a labyrinth of Christmas trees and other seasonal decorations. This Read more…