We were up early and headed to the airport, ten minutes from the house, by 6:15am. No one was in line at security and yet, the thing dinged and I was randomly selected for a secondary screening! I walked through after the guy told me and the nice elderly TSA lady, looked at me and said, “ah, you’re good, go ahead” Gotta love our small airport.
The flight was easy and about 2 hours all in. Our driver met us at the curb and off to the hotel we went. The greeted us like we were someone special and walked us up to our room to show us how everything works. Our room is gorgeous and we’re on the 15th floor above the bustling city and tons of great shopping on the streets below. The city was alive, and makes Denver look like the cow town it is.
Around 2:30 Ava came and met us and we walked around checking things out. Jag showed up from work at 4:15 and we grabbed our Black Uber and headed out to Mon Ami Gabi, a French restaurant I found. 2 hours or so later, we were done with one of the most fantastic meals we’ve had in a long long time. Everything, and I mean everything, was really good. After dinner we walked back to the kids place and then took an Uber back to our hotel. One of the concierge here is from Edwards Colorado! His dad, who now lives in the Philippines, owned Boulangerie Bakery where we’d always go ten years ago or so. Their old bread cutting machine is now in Hovey where Ty works! Small World.
It was 65 degrees in Chicago! People were running on the shore of the lake, playing tennis, walking their dogs and more. It’s like the sun brought everyone out of hibernation. Today it’ll be a little different as it’s going to be 35 or 40 at most. Tomorrow, even a little cooler. Tuesday is an ice and rainstorm! Glad we’ll be home by then.
The kids are doing great and so together. It’s like they grew up ten years in the past month. They’re both crushing it. We need to find them a place so we’re reaching out to everyone we know.
More tomorrow, take care and God Bless.
p.s. we have a great dinner tonight at Maple and Ash, one of the best restaurants in town which is saying something as there’s hundreds of great places! This is a real foody town.