Downtown Adventure

For a couple of summers I've wanted to take my kids downtown to these big fountains and "The Bean" but have never quite been brave enough to do so. But this summer I saw on her blog that my wonderful friend JaNae had done the exact outing I wanted to do, and she was just wonderful enough to do it again with us!

Two cute friends on the train:

 My kids, especially Logan, couldn't get over the buildings, "They're humongous!"

Did I mention how cute these two friends are?

Playing at the fountain:

Me and my friend:) We were reminiscing about the time before we had kids that we came downtown as couples for the 4th of July. I love that we're both still here in Illinois, still great friends, and that our kids are such good friends. (We had all the five-year-olds take turns taking a picture of us, and sure enough one of them didn't cut off our heads!)

The famous Bean:

The kids did pretty good on the forty-five minute, about mile long walk to and from the train station. We did have to pause once and awhile for photo-ops.

And the proof of a great time: all the kids were sound asleep within five minutes of the car ride home.