A day in the garden...

The long holiday weekend served us well. A little rest and relaxation and a whole lotta fun! We went out to see a band, made it to another Cubs game and to the Chicago Botanical Gardens.

The Gardens were more than we could have hoped for. The pictures above do not do it justice. There are more pictures of the gardens as we ourselves didn't look quite like the rockstars we were from the nights before. Breathtaking flowers, wonderful water fountains, and of course fun sculptures for us to pose with. What fun would the day be without crazy picture fun?!?! For a brief while we thought, and hoped for it to thunderstorm so we had some relief from the summer heat, but the thunder and lightning only teased us. We walked the gardens for hours and at one point looked for a place to do "steamroller" into a pond. Thankfully we thought better of it as we figured we would get kicked out or worse yet not get kicked out and drown from craps due to laughter.

While on the walk we suffered from mild dehydration, which came on quickly due to the previous days activities. The dehydration combined with lack of sleep due to our stubbornness to turn on our air led to what I can only describe as deliriousness. At one point Chels told a flower that it was pretty. Which if any of you know me led me to keep talking to that flower...The conversation went somewhat as follows...

"oh flower you are soooo pretty, you are a pretty flower, you are...you know you are a pretty flower, flower...just sit there and be pretty flower...oh you already are." (this needs to be read like the little boy in Dumb & Dumber playing with his dead bird)

Our only suggestions for visiting the gardens on your own would be to make sure you take cash. While the admission is free you do have to pay to park. They do accept pretty much any form of payment except credit/debit cards. We would also suggest not going when it is 99 degrees out with 99% humidity, as you won't look good in photos, no matter what you are wearing! Give serenity a break it can only do so much!!!