Matt & Liz's Adventures: Last Day in Chicago

The past week has been a bit hectic being back in the Carolinas! It's been a whirlwind of family stuff, job interviews, acclimating to southern culture and etc! That deserves it's own blogpost, but for now, lets concentrate on Chicago and the end of a wonderful road trip!

Our last day in Chicago started off with a short walk to the Lincoln Park Zoo. Best part about the zoo minus all the fun animals....it's FREE! The best free zoo we've ever been too! (It beats the DC Zoo and the Chapultepec Zoo, in D.F.)

A Coca Cola Bear!!
He was swimming and playing with a kg ball for a while!

Simba

Beautiful boardwalk!

The husband!

After the zoo we enjoyed strolling around the old Chicago neighborhoods and searching for souvenirs for our family.

Found some Chicago Popcorn around here (A mix of cheddar and Caramel)

Historic Row Houses

More Row Houses, can I live here please?

even move homes!

The Chicago Getaway Hostel where we stayed.
Again, super nice area and neighborhood!
Where's Matt in this picture?

If you're ever in the Chicago area, I totally recommend staying in the Lincoln Park area where we stayed! Such charm and character in this area with old churches, historic row homes, tree lined streets, and lots of parks! You can walk to lots of things too! We were able to walk to N. Clark Street where they have lots of restaurants, stores and coffee shops...The zoo....a longer walk to Wrigley Field, and the super convenient L-Train makes it easy and fast to get to the downtown core area!

The "el"

When you're in a car for 51+ hours what do you do? We found it fun to listen to audio books. Before leaving we purchased the first two books in the Divergent Series. They were super fun to listen to, as they were set in Chicago area and the "Dauntless" compound was in the Navy Pier area! Fun to make connections to a book and real life!

After Chicago, we hopped in the car and began our journey to Dayton, Ohio where we pretty much just stopped to sleep. Obviously there's no pictures as there wasn't much to see other than the highway. After Ohio, we made our way to my (Liz's) hometown to see family and friends. Enjoy the last few pictures from our drive!