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…
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…
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…
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…
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…