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…
We enjoyed our first Chicago’s Quirkiest Sites Date Day so much that we decided to do it again. This time we found more dead people, some cool terra cotta houses and a shit fountain. Continue reading to learn all about Read more…
Where can you find the largest mass grave in the western hemisphere, a boulder dedicated to a tree, a cosmic ray detector and a concrete Cadillac? The answer, of course, is right here in Chicago. We did a little research Read more…
Every year we have a Chicago Christkindlmarket Date Day and every year we freeze our butts off. To make matters worse, by the time we visit, they’re usually out of the year’s commentative wine mugs. Today was finally different! It 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…
Every year we plan to go to County Line Orchard in time to pick Honeycrisp apples and every year we’re a couple weeks late. Today’s Date Day changed that! We braved the 95-degree heat, hiked to the very end of 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…