Deven has been wanting to go to a Notre Dame Football game for years! In October, BYU was going to play Notre Dame at the ND Stadium and he couldn't miss his two alma maters in this showdown. Our friends Jake and Sunnie, and Jeff and Stacey were going as well which made the whole trip even more worth it. Now we just had to decide if we were going to bring the kids or not... It took a couple of weeks to convince me that the kids would be okay without "mom"for a weekend. Once we decided to fly Grandma Laura here to watch the kids, I felt much better about our decision.
My favorite part of the trip may have been eating delicious food at adorable little cafes... and I must admit it was nice to be able to eat a meal without kids climbing on me. But I missed my little munchkins! Deven laughed that the only reading material I brought on the trip was a parenting book.
We spent most of our time exploring Chicago by foot even though it was cold and raining on and off. We loved revisiting some of our favorite sites such as Navy Pier, Millennium Park, window shopping on Michigan Avenue, and eating Giordano's Famous Chicago Style Pizza. We were able to do a lot of new things as well, such as the Sky Deck, the Field Museum of Natural History, try new forms of transportation; the transit, Double Decker Bus, and Trolly, and eat a Chicago style hot dog.
That Saturday we spent the day enjoying the game day traditions that take place all over the Notre Dame campus; Eating a stake sandwich in the quad, watching the drum line pump up the spectators, visiting the golden dome, buying our ND apparel at the crowded bookstore, and watching the marching band make their long entrance into the stadium.
For the record, I cheered for BYU the whole time!
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