Illinois

Brett, Meg, Cam, Doug and I left at 8:45 a.m. for the Art Institute in Chicago.  We visited there a year ago and I was happy that they picked to go back this year.  Cam once again grabbed the program which gave him twelve different pieces of art to find on his journey through the museum.  He had a lot of fun looking for all of them.  It stated that they could be found in an hour, but we took a little longer than that.  My favorite section as always is The Impressionists.  Everyone else seemed to like it as well.  Brett's main focus was the religious section.  We definitely found the paintings there fascinating.  After a trip to the "gift museum" to buy Cam a book, and several Impressionists items, we left for Naperville.

We met Carl and a friend of his at Maggiano's.  We had a nice visit and a delicious lunch.  Cam gave him the gift basket of chocolates with a description of his adventures at The South Bend Chocolate Company.  Carl appreciated the photo album that we made complete with pictures of Jeanette and the Heinisch children.

Our last stop of the night was the Montavon home.  All of the Montavon and Heinisch children had a great night together playing Just Dance and going laser tagging.  We hung out with Kevin and Alexia while they were gone and finished the evening with dinner for everyone from Portillo's.  We left South Elgin at 8:30 Illinois time and had a quiet ride home filled with Christmas movies.  It was a long day, but everyone was happy to have spent it together in Illinois.