Girl's Just Wanna Have Fun

Girl’s Weekend got to start a little bit early for me. Aunt Jeanne was already at Heidi’s and my mom was leaving Friday morning. I planned to leave as soon as I got off work that day and was praying I’d get off early. It worked out for me to leave that morning at 9:00! I came home to finish getting ready and then left just before 10:00. I made it to Heidi’s at 1:30 and we figured mom would be there shortly after. Instead she got stuck in construction and ended up getting there after 3:30!


We stayed at Heidi and Jeff’s that night. Jeff stayed with his parent’s and Zachary hung out with us. We ordered pizza for supper and Zach dined on some PBJ while we waited to our moms to come back with our food.

After supper we drove to Tinley Park to look at all of the decorated benches they have lining one of the streets. In true form we acted like morons and posed in front of several of them.

Once we looked at all of the benches we stopped for ice cream. Zach enjoyed eating some of mine while waiting for grandma to get some to share with him.

We spent the rest of the night back at the condo hanging out and were in bed by 11 since we had to be up early on Saturday. Heidi and I of course had to do some reminiscing before falling asleep…it’s tradition.

Saturday morning we all got up and ready to go. Had my 22 week pictures taken too! I was also excited because when Zach woke up he wanted to come to me! My little buddy!

A group shot!

We dropped Zach off with his other grandma and then headed for the Metra station where we caught our train into downtown Chicago. With all of the stops it takes about an hour to ride it down there. We went and got all day tickets for the El and let Heidi guide us to Ed Debevic’s. We ended up missing our stop the first time, so we got off at the next stop and hopping back on the train going back the other way!

Ed Debevic’s was awesome. Mom was the only one who hadn’t eaten there before. If you don’t know what it is, it’s a 50’s style diner where the waiters are rude to you on purpose. Our waiter’s name was “Biscuits” and he immediately started calling us the weird ladies. Aunt Jeanne only wanted a hamburger so he goes, “A hamburger?? What does cheese give you gas? HEY EVERYONE!!! CHEESE GIVES THIS LADY GAS!!” It was hilarious. It’s really the only time you want to get picked on by a waiter. Haha!

After Ed’s, we went back to the El to catch our ride to the theater! We had to make a stop at Old Nav y first because another on of mom’s flip-flops broke! Beauty and the Beast was amazing. It’s my favorite fairy tale. Although I wasn’t bored, for some reason I almost fell asleep a couple of times during the first half! I would catch myself nodding off! Thankfully I was able to wake back up during intermission and didn’t dose off anymore.

By the time it ended we needed to make our way back to the Metra and catch our next train. We had to wait about a half an hour for it. Not too bad. There were a couple of drunk guys who plopped down behind us but then moved to another car with all of their wasted buddies.

At one of the stops it seemed like we were sitting there awhile. That’s when I looked out the window and saw a guy getting a pat down from the police. I said what I saw and half the people sitting on the other side were waiting for play by plays from us. Haha! I glanced out again and the police had taken and whole group of them off and they were all handing over their ID’s as we pulled away. Gotta love a little Chicago excitement!

Went back to Heidi’s to get our stuff and then went to our hotel to check in for the night. By then it was 8:00 and we hadn’t eaten since lunch so we went in search of food and ended up at Panera. We had planned to go swimming at the hotel but by the time we got back we really didn’t feel like it, so I called my hubby and then we all just talked and listened as Aunt Jeanne read us the tale of she and my mom’s trip to Wisconsin last year. I think we all just about peed our pants.

Heidi fell asleep so we decided it was time for all of us to go to bed. We shut off the lights and realized our light by the door had turned into a strobe light and wouldn’t stop flashing even though it was off. After debating what to do we called the front desk…mostly because I was afraid of an electrical fire. They only had 1 room left and we didn’t want to move or sleep on a pull out sofa, so they sent up the security guy to see if he could fix it. He replaced the bulb and it stopped. After he left it started flashing too! We just took matters into our own hands and took the bulb out!

This morning we just had breakfast together and spent a little more time hanging out before we needed to check out. Jacob’s friends (well...mine too!) dropped off a bag of baby clothes for us since they live close by. It was nice getting to see them and meet their little girl too!

Said our goodbyes and made it back home at 2:45. It’s always fun going away, but always nice to get home too!