On Saturday night, the family all took a trip downtown to take part in the Holiday Lights Trolley tour - a 2.5 hour tour showing the best of the holiday decorations that downtown Chicago has to offer. We all boarded the trolley and headed to our first stop, Lincoln Park Zoo. We were given 30 minutes to explore over 2 million lights, ice carvings and other holiday decorations. There was even a light-up Mondo Monkey hanging from the tree that we pointed out to Riley, who was in his big-boy stroller (cause there wasn't enough room to schlep a car seat on the trolley).
We then drove down Michigan Avenue to see all of the holiday lights, including the decorated holiday windows at Macy's on State Street. The next stop was the Christkindlmarket - a recreation of a German holiday market where you can buy crafts, beer and German food. We had wiener schnitzel, potato pancakes and roasted nuts. Then back onto the trolley.
Our last stop was at the Hancock Tower where we got our hot chocolate and brownies and saw a great holiday train display. I don't know who liked it better - Chris or Riley... I think Chris did this year!
We really lucked out with the weather too! It was almost 50 degrees that evening and felt wonderful to be walking outside with just a light jacket and no need to bundle up every time we stepped off the trolley. We all had a wonderful time and are now thoroughly in the holiday spirit!
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Sounds like a wonderful evening. I'll bet Riley LOVED all the lights! It sounds like Chris did, too! You mentioned you are all not in the holiday spirit. Did you mean you are now in the holiday spirit?
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