Chicago!

What a fun time we had. My mom, sister, my aunt and my self all went to Chicago to see Oprah! It was a fun fun time. My sister won tickets to Oprah so we just made a little trip out of it. My mom got tubes put in her ears for this trip. She does not usually fly because of her burst ear drum in the past. She all ways said that if we got tickets to Oprah that she would go. I even wrote into Oprah several years ago telling her story in hopes that she would give us tickets. I was so proud of my mom, she did it and her ears didn't hurt her a bit. When we got to Chicago we had been told NOT TO TAKE the train and what did we do? Yep we took the train and nope we sure shouldn't have. So after taking the train and bumping all of our luggage down some metal stairs we had to walk like 5 blocks to get to our hotel. Whew! We learned our lesson early on. The next day we shopped till we dropped and had a blast. We went to all the discount stores. They had an amazing Marshalls, TJ Maxx and Nordstrom Rack. I loved the old buildings and seeing what a really big city is like. It was beautiful and very very clean. On our very last day there we went to the taping of the show. It was really cool to see how it all went down. We had to wait for 2 hours in this small holding room before we got to go in. Our show was the Reality TV show and was pretty cool. Ace of Cakes was the highlight for me. I loved to see those beautiful cakes that they made. Too bad we didn't get to taste them! We went to her store and then caught our plane home. What a great memory, what a great trip! I sure had a hard time leaving my babies but had a blast with my mom, sister and aunt.