5th Anniversary

John and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary on August 7th!  The past 5 years went by quickly and so much has happened in 5 years!  John and I wanted to do something special and different for our 5th anniversary, but with Kaden around, it makes it tricky to do anything too elaborate.  We were thankful that the Lindahls offered to watch Kaden!  We, or John, I should say, thought of doing a progressive dinner in Chicago.  We also love to walk, so we decided to go to 5 different restaurants and walk 5 miles for our 5th anniversary!  We went on our actual anniversary, a Thursday night, so we had to plan around times restaurants were open.  We knew we wanted to go to Cafe Ba Ba Reeba for sure, so we planned our night around there.

First, we went to Freshii, a quick "sort of like fast food" place for a salad.  We had never been to one before, but the salad we shared was really good.  We chose that place because it was quick, and right next to Cafe Ba Ba Reeba, where we went for appetizers (although we really ate the most food here).  This restaurant has Spanish tapas, and we have always loved coming here ever since we discovered it a few years ago.  We ordered a deviled egg, bacon wrapped dates, a cheese platter, green peppers, and a steak with blue cheese and chips to share.  Like I said, this is where we really ate most of our food!  Then from there, we did a longer walk to Bub City.  We picked Bub City because it was opened late and they had live country music.  Neither of us had been there before, and it was a pretty neat place.  It was loud in there, but at least we had our candle lit dinner at Ba Ba Reebas!  We shared a pulled pork sandwich with tatter tots and coleslaw for our main dish. We also listened to a country singer named Doug McCormick. After Bub City, it was a little later than we originally planed to leave, so we had to look for a closer ice-cream place for dessert since most close at midnight.  We stopped a couple blocks away at a place called Froyo.  Next, we walked up part of Michigan Ave. and back to the 24 hour Starbucks, which we knew had to be our last stop because it would be open.  We shared a vanilla latte and then decided to get an Uber back home.  It was a very late night for us parents!  We were exhausted, but it was so much fun and memorable.  It would be fun to try out a new set of restaurants and do something similar to this sometime, but maybe we should cut it down to three.