Vacation…Part I

Instead of a two-week cross-country extravaganza, we’re breaking up the Chicago and Texas visits by spending a few days back at home. Here’s the report from Part I.

We left for Chicagoland a day or two earlier than we had first planned. Realizing that Wednesday was Jack’s birthday, and Thursday travel meant the rush of pre-wedding Tyszko Family choas starting the very first full day there, we decided to leave Tuesday. Once we settled on this, my amazing sister-in-law and her equally amazing friends at Pepsi surprised us with tickets to the Cubs v. Braves at Wrigley Field on Wednesday!

We left her house at 10:30, driving to the blue line station at Cumberland. We caught a train to Addison, and then a bus straight to Wrigley. The morning rain slowed to a drizzle by game time, so after a twenty-minute delay the game got started. We sat under the upper deck and stayed dry the whole time. It was nerve-wracking to hear the barkers calling “Peanuts! Get your peanuts!” Especially nerve-wracking since we forgot Eliana’s Epipen. To me it sounded like “Cyanide! Get your Cyanide!” Or “Hey–oh! Who wants to kill Eli-aaaana!” Thank God nothing happened, but I know why the Cubs lost: all the angels in the outfield were hovering over my poor allergic one.

On the way back, Jack fell asleep on the bus and slept until we got back into the car. When his other grandparents called they asked what he did for his birthday, he said, “I went on a train. And on a bus….And I saw a baseball game.” That was the order in which he was impressed, too. We had deep-dish that night and Jack played with his new toys. Good fun.

Thursday they went to the neighborhood pool and had a great time. Friday was a slower day until some of the family not at the rehearsal came over for a party. It was good to see them! The wedding on Saturday was beautiful and the reception got pretty wild. Eliana struggled with a migraine and spent Sunday feeling sick and vomitting. Poor girl.

We drove home yesterday and got in around 10:00.  The kids were so happy to be home they rolled on the carpet for ten minutes before we herded them up to bed.

Next we we head to Texas to see my side of the family…but that trip is shorter, thank God.

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