We left Winnipeg on Wednesday night and flew to Chicago. We have been hanging out in Chicago for the past two days and leave here tomorrow morning for Kyiv. It's been a great two days, it was so nice to have this little vacation before we head to Kyiv.

Yesterday we went to Target in the morning, man I love that store....we do not have it in Canada, so it's such a treat!! In the afternoon we went to Woodfield Mall, the 2nd largest mall in the US. Only the Mall of America is larger and since we have been there many times so this mall was nothing spectacular for us, but we enjoyed looking around. Brad's cousin Lorne and his wife Kristin picked us up and the 4 us us went to TGI Fridays for dinner and then they came back to our hotel to visit more. We had a great time. It was so nice to see them, they have just moved from Phoenix and have never lived close to us, so it was extra special!

Today we headed downtown on the L train. Brad had his first visit to Popeye's chicken for lunch, we went to Navy Pier and the famous Wrigley's Field for a Cub game...what an amazing place....we are definelty coming back here again some day, hopefully soon.

We we take off tomorrow for Ukraine, so I am going up to my room to repack and get a good nights sleep!!!

OH, I can not get the spell check to work...so I hope I did not make to may mistakes!!