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…
We woke up today, to the best weather we’ve had in a while. The forecast was for sunshine, with temperatures in the low 40’s. Not too shabby for March in Chicago. We talked about what to do and Theresa said, 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…
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 are big fans of Lake Michigan. We visit its beaches, walkways and hiking paths frequently during the spring, summer and fall, but don’t spend much time there during the winter. Today, we decided to do something different and drive Read more…