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…
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…
A free gourmet meal at the Merchandise Mart? How does that happen? Well, we told the nice folks at Sub-Zero and Wolf that we were interested in new kitchen appliances (we really are), and they invited us to spend our Read more…
It was a perfect day, so we made plans to park in downtown Chicago, walk to Lincoln Park Zoo and have an outdoor lunch somewhere along the way. With memories of Jonathon Brandmeier’s The Moo-Moo Song dancing in our heads, 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…