"She's An American Girl....."

For Fall Break, we packed up and headed to Chicago!

When I was a little girl, we always ate at Gino's so that was first on our "must do's"....

 Delaney's first Chicago style piece of pizza (you just need one!)

 Delaney took two steps into American Girl....

 And her bag was......

 FULL! 

If it was reachable, it went in her bag.  This is Delaney taking everything out so we could make "must have" and "must go back on the shelf" piles (tough love people, tough love)!

 After all that shopping, we headed to our reservation at RPM.  Sadly, there were no Giuliana, Bill or baby Duke sightings.  Our meal was SO good!!!

 Delaney ate two of the three......

 And as if her dessert wasn't enough...we headed to Dylan's Candy Store. It was so neat!!

More Dessert (birthday cake ice cream) 

 We Love Chicago!!!

 Bedtime (too bad someone let her have all that sugar before bed)

 Donut heaven right in our hotel (the third one from the left has a slice of bacon on top)

Somehow I managed to order a bagel instead of the last red velvet donut you see sitting there!

 Delaney picked....what else?

 Round two...........

 Lunch at American Girl (it was so much fun)

 More Dessert..........

 Delaney chose the double decker pony tail for Marie Grace

 She also got her ears pierced! 

(and as soon as we find that earring in my car I can get it vacuumed)

 Oh, and her shoes you ask?? Well, they are somewhere on one of six floors of the Water Tower!

 Our hotel (The Rafaello) was across the street from grandma's apartment when she lived in Chicago (circa 1970).  She lived one street over from Lakeshore Drive with a view of the lake.  As grandma put it "that's when daddy paid the bills". 

 After Gino's, RPM, Dylan's Candy Store, and Glazed and Infused, Delaney and I hit the gym the morning after we got home!  One of us worked out and the other one played on the ipad! Then she was off again. The girl has the social calendar of a teenager! I took this picture and told her I'd see her in the car pool line Monday afternoon (I just hope she remembers what our car looks like and her momma)!

Delaney is such a good little traveler. We've already booked our next trip!

We're going on a cruise to the Bahamas so someone will stop bugging me about swimming with the dolphins at Atlantis (Ok, maybe it's not tough love after all).........