Chicago numero "hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm CUA-TRO!"

The title of this post is actually a family joke that occurred during our trip! There is a song by Pitbull called "Calle Ocho" that has a large spanish section, and as a Spanish minor I like to know all of the spanish parts! I looked it up late at night and was playing the song on YouTube so I could sing along with the Spanish parts, and apparently everyone in our family had the song stuck in their head! As we were trying to go to sleep, Daddy all of the sudden started humming the chorus and the "one two three four uno dos tres cuatro" part over and over and over. The funny part was that he didn't know any words besides cuatro, andhe knew that word had an accent, so he ended up humming "hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm HMM-HM!" with the last part being cuatro. At some point he started losing tack of his "hmm"s so he would simply pick a time that felt right to go "HMM-HM!" and it was ridiculously entertaining!

On the fourth day we went to Shedd Aquarium and to an outlet shopping mall in a Chicago suburb. When we walked into the aquarium the first thing we saw was a giant tank called the Caribbean aquarium! It was my favorite exhibit of all of them! Inside there was a sea turtle by the name of Nickel due to a lodged nickel they found in her throat when she was rescued. Nickel swims funnily with her behind constantly floating upward because her buoyancy was disturbed when she got hit by the propeller of a motor boat. If Shedd hadn't rescued her she never would have survived, but now she lives happily and healthily in the aquarium. She had a wonderful rescue story, plus she was pretty cute too, so she was my favorite!

Christy took lots of artistic pictures of the fishes too! At one point we had a tragedy and somehow all of the pictures for the day got erased, but it was early enough in the day that she was able to go back and take new pictures to restore them all! I was also amazed by the brave preschool teachers who thought bringing 30 four-year-olds to the aquarium was a good idea. I swear there were little mini children running around everywhere! It was a bit annoying since their parents weren't around to keep a closer eye on them, but our family survived at least!

Later in the day we went to the outlet mall which has over 200 stores. Incredible huh? We found out that I look absolutely beautiful in "long dresses" and at one particular store we went to, every single one I tried on fit so well to the point that Mommy told me to stop trying them on or she was going to have to buy the whole store! Hehe. It was fun finding my style! Daddy also went on a search for "gladiator sandals" because we had seen a tooon of girls in Chicago wearing them and we were definitely intrigued! After asking a lady in one of the stores where she got her sandals she directed us to a shoe store that had the cutest ones ever! We got two pairs and I can't wait to show them to everyone :) It was definitely a successful shopping trip, and a great way to end the vacation!

Especially considering our time constraints we had an awesome mini vacay with lots of fun family time! Chicago, you know you'll miss us!!! ;)