the.windy.city.chicago

For the last five days Trevor and I have been in Chicago, exploring the windy city and as for me working hard! I went to Chicago for the Mortgage Bankers Associations Annual Conference & Expo and Trev was able to come a long. It was a lot of fun! Good food, great company (Erin & Dave), hard work, beautiful views, lake Michigan, shopping and parties. All in all WE LOVE CHICAGO!

We arrived Saturday and immediately met up with Erin and Dave who happened to be there the same time for the Chicago Marathon, which Erin rocked. We spent Saturday and Sunday with them and it was so much fun. They showed us the city, where they use to live and where Dave went to law school. We also had great food and shopping. We also got to watch Erin run the Chicago marathon, with 45,000 runners it was quite and event and so much fun. It did actually make running a marathon look fun! The cool thing about following Erin through the marathon was seeing the many different places/neighborhoods of Chicago, we went all around the city; it was a lot of walking, but we did get to ride the "L".

On Sunday night my conference started and my days were full of meetings with marketing/magazine/PR professionals and greeting new clients, existing clients and potential clients. It was a great show for IDS and a better turn out than last year.... could the mortgage industry be on an up swing? HA! After five days we are wipe and excited to be home to the beautiful fall weather in Utah. Here are some pictures of our adventure!

Waiting at the airport!!

View from the place we stayed with Erin and Dave on Saturday! Thank you so much!! Thank you to the Summers too! Such a great place they have

Lake Michigan

Downtown Chicago and the river

So cute! I love this picture!

Tribune Tower-- It has a piece of famous places all around the world whether it be natural monuments or great architecture! Look a piece of the Salt Lake Temple! How cool huh?! This building reminded me a lot of the way Westminster Abbey looks in London

Giant Marylin Monroe

Chicago Marathon, I believe we are at mile 16 here

Erin after the race! She looks amazing right?

Me and the bean- So cool at night

Navy Pier

IDS had a party on Tuesday night with one of our partners and it was on the 95th floor of the John Hancock building the view was absolutely amazing I could not get enough!

Another view!

Chicago was a blast! Trevor and I were able to spend a lot of time together doing spontaneous things around the city when I wasn't working! Of course we got deep dish pizza from Giordano's which I am so sad I didn't get a picture of the pizza! It is literally a pie! so good! We hope we can come back to Chicago lots, it is a great city!

A & T