Another amazing day …..

We, well Dave, had an early night last night, being sound asleep at 9.00pm. I, on the other hand, was too wired to sleep so watched a bit of tv before finally turning the light off at around 11.

The first time I looked at the clock it was 5.30am and thought way too early to get up so shut my eyes again and before we knew it was 8.00am. As we are in downtown Chicago we are surrounded by skyscrapers and our unit only has one window which isn’t in our bedroom so the room is very dark.

We eventually got up, had a quick bite to eat before rugging up warm as the temps were showing -7 with a feels like of -13.

As today, by the weather forecast, is the only day we get where the sun will be shining (they are predicting snow the next few days) we knew we wanted to get in quite a bit of sightseeing today.

But first we had to do some grocery shopping. As we have a kitchenette in our room, we wanted to get some food to cook for dinners and some breakfast food. When you are travelling for 6 weeks you do crave just to sit and eat in instead of eating out all the time (well we do).

So off we headed towards Jewel-Osco grocery store to get some food. After getting the food we needed, we still needed to get a toaster (we thought our kitchenette would have a toaster but it didn’t). We looked at Walgreens but they had sold out and as we were walking back to our unit we found a Target and got a toaster. THE best purchase on any long trip.

With everything we needed, we got back to our unit to make lunch before rugging up again, this time sightseeing. We walked all of Navy Pier, sat along the shores of Lake Michigan (frozen in parts), survived the wind chill coming off the water though I think my lips froze a few times. After exploring Navy Pier, we headed to Millennium Park before making our way back to our room stopping at a few shops along the way.

Today in Highfields it reached 29 degrees - it is surreal that we were experiencing 36 degrees difference in temps with a 42 degree difference in the feels like! I know which temps Dave and I prefer ❄️

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