Staycation.

This past week I was on spring break from school.  With already two trips to Florida in 2011 and David in Costa Rica last week, we decided not to go away.  I loved having the week to enjoy my life here and get things done at school and home.  To have a little fun, we decided to take a "staycation" for two days downtown.  We stayed at The James Hotel, which was super sleek and cool.  The first night we were there, we went to see The Blue Man Group and had a blast.  The theater was really interesting inside and we sat in the front row so we literally saw everything.  I was also given a poster that they made! 

There were tubes like this hanging everywhere!


After we went to the show, we went out to one of David's favorite places to eat, Japonais.  Yum!!


The next day, we decided to be tourists around the city.  First, David left early to go to work for a little while I slept/worked out.  On his way out, he saw one of our favorite reality celebs, Benthenny Frankel!  I was super jealous that I did not get up early enough for that : (  He was told that there were Bravo celebs in the hotel for a Top Chef party, so we had our eyes opened for them!  For lunch we found The Southern Mac and Cheese Truck through Facebook.  I follow them, but have never had their food.  They go to different places around the city each day and serve gourmet mac and cheese from their truck.  It was soo soo soo good!!

Next, we went to go check out The French Market.  It is this cute building that has rows of food and different objects to buy.  It was both fun and yummy!

After our time at The French Market, we took a little rest and went shopping on Michicgan Ave.  We ended the day with eating dinner at the restaurant in the hotel, we were too spent to walk anywhere else! It was a great dinner though.  While waiting for dinner, we saw another Top Chef contestant, Tiffany (with red hair...don't know her last name!)


We had to leave early on Friday so that David could go to opening day of The Cubs.  However, he was lucky enough to see Carla (our favorite!) from Top Chef in the lobby before I woke up.  Lesson learned from the trip...wake up earlier!  


All in all, it was a great staycation!


Mrs. Barnett : )