Visitors!

Hurray, we have visitors!  Grandpa and Grandma Smith, no less!  We have been eagerly awaiting their arrival.  They came to stay for over week and spend Thanksgiving with us.  As always we had a lot of fun with them.  For the first few days they were with us, they got to follow our family routine.  The girls were in school and Dave was working, so I got Grandpa and Grandma all to myself, which may or may not have included some shopping.

On the Friday after they arrived, I took them to downtown Chicago to meet Dave for lunch.  We took the train into the city and were pleasantly surprised to find a cute Christmas bazaar in the main hall of the station.  We then hopped in a cab and went over to Macy's.  We took a quick look at the Christmas windows, because it was pretty cold outside.  I have to say, I'm not loving the look of the windows this year, they went with a "toy, play, puppet" kind of theme and it just seemed okay.

The main reason we went to Macy's was to have a Christmas lunch in the Walnut Room under the big tree.  This is a famous Chicago tradition, and now Jim and Carolyn can check it off their list.  Dave came over from his office to meet us and we were seated right away.  Lunch was good, although the pictures we took weren't too hot, as you will soon see.  Surprisingly, Grandma ordered a hamburger and said it was one of the best she ever had.  Now, I have to go back to try it.  It was a bacon cheeseburger with tomato jam served on a pretzel bun.  It does sound pretty good!

The Big Tree

Too blurry

Definitely need to rethink our positions in this photo...my head looks freakishly
tiny or maybe someone's head looks freakishly big!

After lunch, Dave drove us all home, where we hung out with girls and Grandpa and Grandma played cards with them.  Later that evening we went to Oberweis for some ice cream and even bought some quarts to bring home for later!!