Here are two examples from this week:
Free day at the museum ended up being on the wrong day. Thanks to me reading the website wrong.
Our second choice was to hang out in Millenium Park, eat lunch and hurry up and get back to our car that was waiting in a ridiculously expensive parking garage. Which made sense at the time because we weren't paying for the museum. The day turned into an expensive trip to eat at Potbelly's.
Kate loved it. But couldn't understand why other people were going into the museum and we couldn't.
This boy wasn't sold on anything that day. I think he felt the way his parents did.
It was in the afternoon on Saturday when we decided we'd drive up to the Illinois/Wisconsin border and check out a Wisconsin beach. Ryan and Kate were expecting a few hours of some good Lake Michigan swimming. What we got was a nice beach that just looked like maybe it was really crowded in the morning because of all the trash and then we got to the water and the shore was a somewhat dirty algae fest.
Now, I wouldn't consider ourselves beach snobs, but this was pretty gross. Note the picture above, you had to walk through four feet of that stuff to get to the clear water. Ryan and Kate did, but Ryan said the water smelled like fish.
This beach did have a great old school park, that the kids loved. It was a genuine all metal park that left the kids all marked up. But actually I think that is algae on Kate's legs. Gross, I know.
We cut our beach trip short and headed north a little more to see if we could find a different beach. We ended up in Racine, got to see some beautiful houses and got to see the SC Johnson building that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Ryan had been there for work and had wanted me to see it so it worked out great. We didn't get to go inside, but the outside was cool.
This building is the auditorium. The other buildings were tucked further back.
Sometimes things don't go as planned, but it is an adventure nonetheless.
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