Life With a Dane: Honeymoon

After our lovely wedding Charles and I had a wonderful honeymoon planned in Chicago! We had tickets for a train at 6 am on Monday after the wedding. The ride there was very pleasant and we got there pretty early. We were staying at the Getaway Hostel in Lincoln Park Chicago. It was a very different experience from what we have been used to at regular hotels but we really enjoyed ourselves. The staff was wonderful and helped us navigate our way through a fun filled, romantic honeymoon!
When we got the the Hostel we were so worn out from all of the wedding craziness! Right after we checked in we took a nap! When we woke up we got dressed and went to Chicago Pizzaria and Oven Grinders. This restaurant was suggested to me by an interviewer a few weeks before the wedding and it happened to be pretty close to the Hostel. This restaurant was so awesome! It turned out to be one of our favorite parts of the honeymoon! They are known for pizza pot pies which essentially is the pizza toppings in a souflee type dish with pizza dough on top. When it comes out it looks like a mushroom. When they get to your table they put the crust on the plate and it becomes a bowl and they scrape all of the toppings into it! It was so unique and delicious we will never forget it!
Tuesday we went to the Lincoln Park Zoo which was about a twelve minute walk from our Hostel. I am a HUGE fan of zoos so when I saw where the Hostel was located while planning the honeymoon I knew that was something we just had to do. I had never been to this zoo and it is beautiful. We really enjoyed ourselves and saw so many animals it was crazy! Both of us definitely want to go back there again in the future....someday we want to take our kids there to enjoy it as well!
Wednesday we were going to go down to the magnificent mile where a lot of shopping is in Chicago but it was so rainy! Neither of one of us really wanted to go all the way over there to window shop in the down pour! We decided instead to go see a movie. There was a theater not to far from the Hostel so we decided to go see Scary Movie 5 (it was definitely Charles' choice) and had a nice time. We don't go to movies very often because they are so expensive and in Chicago a matinee is 9 dollars!!!! What better time to do it than on your honeymoon though? After that we walked through some stores close by before we tried to catch a cab. I wanted to go to this tappas restaurant but we could not get a cab to save our lives! Charles is so sweet and was trying so hard to get me to the restaurant that I really wanted to go to. I was getting hungry and exhausted and saw a pizza place across the street called Piquads that the Hostel workers had told us about on day one. We decided to try it out and it was amazing! We enjoyed a huge pizza and some beer and really enjoyed our last dinner out in Chicago.
Thursday was mostly about travel. We slept in a little bit and then showered and packed up our things as we prepared to head back to Indy. We had to hang out at Union Station for a couple of hours because it was raining so much we couldn't really get out and do anything. It wasn't too bad until a homeless guy told me I was pretty and asked me to marry him! Hahaha...Charles' laughed about it until the guy started touching me! Creepy! When we finally boarded the train and started our way home. IT WAS TERRIBLE because of all the rain that the midwest got that week! They had to keep stopping and checking the tracks for flooding. A trip that should have take about 4 hours took us almost 8!!! It was very very very long but at least the train has outlets by every seat so we could keep our phones charged.
Overall we had a wonderful time and plan to go back for anniversaries to come. One reason we picked Chicago was because it is so close and we will be able to return in the future. We are so blessed to be able to go on a honeymoon in the first place let alone one that we had so much fun!