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Aaron had a business trip out to Chicago, so he took me with him and we celebrated our anniversary there!! It was so much fun!! Aaron was LOVING it because they filmed a lot of the Dark Knight there, so he kept recognizing all the parts of the city where they made the movie. And while we were there, we ran into Oprah's 24th Season Kick Off Party, so we went! It was pretty much a big concert on Michigan Avenue. There was Black-eyed Peas, James Taylor, Jennifer Hudson, and Rascal Flats! It was my first concert!!! We had so much fun!!
We also went to Navy Pier and went on the Swings, rode the Ferris Wheel, and played Mini Golf. Aaron beat me at mini golf by ONE POINT! So lame... :) It was a lot of fun!! We got ice cream cones and walked around, it was really cute. We also saw a funny sign that said that McDonald's was the future. Aaron was cracking up over it, lol.
For our anniversary Aaron took me out to a nice Italian restaurant and we went to the Hancock Observatory. It was REALLY nice!! Then we went back to the hotel to eat our wedding cake... that's a sad/funny story... we transported the cake topper all the way from where we were married in Seattle to O'Fallon, IL. I carried the cake on my lap on for the entire two flights back home. Then when we moved from our apartment to our new house, I made a separate trip in my car just to get the cake topper from freezer to freezer as quickly as possible. So after all of that... we had to transport the cake topper once again to Chicago. So we went and bought a cooler and some ice and put the ice and the cake in the cooler and drove to Chicago! The ice was in a bag and the cake was in a bag. Stupid me.. both bags were porous! Anyway... the ice melted and the cake ended up soaking in water for three days. So when we went to get the cake from the cooler... it was a soaking wet mess! I tried to dry it out...but it was beyond repair. We still each had a bite of it, just to keep up tradition! But it tasted like dirty water :( It was pretty funny though!
So Chicago was fantastic! We also went to Madison on our way home to meet up with Aaron's parents for a football game! I don't have those pictures right now though, so I'll post on that later. Of course when we got home, we rented the Dark Knight and we had a lot of fun recognizing all the places we had just been!
Enjoy the pictures. :) There's a video at the end of me trying to show how gross and wet our cake was... it didn't turn out too well, but oh well!
Sounds like you guys had a wonderful time. I love Chicago. I went there once for a highschool trip :P That is amazing you tried so hard to save your wedding cake. Joel and I don't know where the top of our wedding cake went. Some family member took it for when we went on our honeymoon, and then I don't know where it went or who has it now, so someone probably enjoyed some wedding cake. We didn't get to eat any for our anniversary. But we're still happy. On our first year anniversary, I was a few weeks pregnant, so I probably would have thrown it up anyway. :P
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