Once-in-Lifetime!

This past Saturday Gregg, Lillie, Patrick, Gregg's dad Ron, and I went to Navy Pier to see the Tall Ships.  Lillie and I were very excited about it since this was mine, Lillie and Patrick's first time going to Navy Pier.  We decided to take the train into Chicago which was an 80 minute ride and meet Ron at the train station and then take the bus over to Navy Pier.  This sounded like a pretty fool proof plan to an awesome day but unfortunately it seemed as if everything was working against us.


Lets count the many things that went wrong with our trip:
1. The boys woke up extremely early which equated to two cranky little boys.

2. Had to wake Lillie up to catch the train which equated to a cranky little girl.

3. Had to turn the car around because we forgot our tickets.

4. Had to turn the car around AGAIN because we both forgot our phones.

5. Missed our train due to turning the car around twice, had to take a later train.

6. McDonald's completely messed up Gregg's coffee order which equated to a cranky big boy.

7. Right as we were getting ready to board the bus Lillie showed us that her flip-flop broke.

8. The Payless Shoes the bus driver directed us to was closed (another 30 minutes wasted).

9. Waited in line at McDonald's for 40 minutes before we got our food.

10. Realized I forgot Patrick's food at home.

11.  Waited in line at McDonald's dessert shop for 10 minutes to get Patrick a yogurt.

12.  Waited in line at McDonald's dessert shop for another 10 minutes to get Lillie a shake.

13.  Finally found Lillie another pair of shoes in the 6th store we stopped at.

14.  Lillie was a millimeter too short to go on the huge bouncy slide thing, both kids were upset.

15.  Waited in line for an hour+ to see a training ship built in 1989, not so thrilling.

16  When Lillie went to the bathroom the pee somehow shot right out of the toilet and got her underwear all wet and she had to spend the rest of the day with no underwear in a dress.

17.  After seeing our first ship we realized it was almost 5 o'clock and we wanted to catch the 5:45 train home.

18.  Passed much bigger, older ships on the way out and realized they only had 20 minute wait times.

19.  Missed our 5:45 train and now can't catch a train until 7:35.

20.  Two tired, cranky, bored children got on my nerves at Subway and I freaked out on everyone scaring a father/son to leave that was sitting next to us.

I am sure I'm missing something but I have already blocked it out of my mind :)


If it were not for the small amount of time we had to spend on the ships due to everything that went wrong we would have enjoyed our day more and saw more than one ship.  Despite it all we still managed to remain in good spirits (minus my Subway meltdown) and enjoy the beautiful day we had to spend in Chicago.


Lillie's favorite memory about the Tall Ships: "Going on the ships cuz after I waited in line for a long time and I got to see the worms wiggle"

This was the third time we took Lillie into Chicago and this is the second time she came home without underwear on... poor girl!

See next post for pics!