Spring Break Chicago - St Patrick's Day

It was Notre Dame's spring break this last week, so we decided to take advantage of it and take a trip to Chicago for a couple of days.

The first day of the trip was mainly spent driving and sitting in traffic on roads under construction. However, we finally made it to the temple in North Chicago and were able to attend a session. We ended up buying an I-PASS for the toll roads, so we don't have to worry about saving all of our change anymore. It automatically withdraws the toll from our account so we can go though the fast lanes at the toll booths.

We finally made it to our hotel around 7pm, then went and got some dinner at Trattoria #10 (a nearby Italian restaurant). The food was good but more fancy than filling. After dinner, we just went back to the hotel and crashed.

Then next day we meet Becky's Great Aunt Harue and her grand daughter Katiana at the aquarium. She is a member there and was kind enough to take us through. It is an excellent aquarium, and we enjoyed our time there. Afterwards, we went to the Oriental Theater and bought tickets to see Wicked next month when my parents come out.

We then met up with Jim (a cousin) and went to the Sears tower and paid 12 bucks for an elevator ride to the top. It was a great view of the city and is one of those things you have to do once in Chicago.



We had dinner at Hae Woon Dae, a Korean restaurant that was very good and very authentic. It used a charcoal grill at the table to cook the kalbi. It was a fun little trip, although we missed the big parade in Chicago and dyeing the river green. We did find a fountain that had dyed green water, so we took a picture by it.