We heart the Zoo!

It's true.....we heart the Lincoln Park Zoo! How can you not...it's free, it's in the middle of a beautiful city park surrounded by picnicking families, paddle boaters, frolicking dogs, sandy beaches along Lake Michigan, and much more! I mean seriously, where else can you relax with your favorite playful gorilla buddies, roaming giraffes, posing seals, wandering grizzly bears, smelly yet adorable penguins, and lazy lions and lionesses? You can visit all of these friends while at the same time eating a delicious popsicle (or popcorn, cotton candy, peanuts, whatever) and working on your summer tan (or burn, in my case).

As the pictures above show, the gift shop can prove to be as much fun as the zoo itself. Who would have known that one would have the opportunity to kiss a penguin, get licked by a lizard and a seal, play "hear no, see no, speak no evil" with monkeys, or be transformed into an elephant and a tucan? Anything can happen at the zoo.....it's true!

So, if you ever find yourself bored on a regular old Sunday afternoon get out of your pj's and take a trip to the zoo. That's what we do!

Adventure on the high sea...or was that the river?

As many of you know this site is/was dedicated to our Adventures, but many of you may not realize that they were intended to be our CHICAGO adventures. To our suprise and delight we have ended up having many more adventures outside the city limints than in...so with that in mind this past weekend was an AWESOME Chicago weekend and we enjoyed ourselves immensley!

The weekend began early for one Chandi member with a much needed mental health day...so the two day weekend was extended to include Friday. Since we were trying to remain faithful to our "Operation Free Mind II" (more on that in a later blog) we needed to be more creative with our time. Thanks to some good friends who unfortunately were on their 'Farewell to Chicago' tour we went on an exciting and new adventure on Saturday.

Follow this link to the first stop on our weekend adventure. Thanks in part to the awesome weather and dramamine we had a fantastic time! We ended up getting somewhat of a history lesson on our great city. The picutre above is a combination of a few of the better pictures from the trip. If you look closely you will see the base of the new Trump Headquarters located on the old Chicago Sun Times spot...and if you look even closer you can see Bill Rancic, the first Apprentice winner. (If you can find him you win a free, all expensed paid Adventures of Chandi t-shirt)

After the boat ride we walked down Michigan Avenue to a restaurant called Bandera. This was the first time that Chandi had ever been there and I think I can speak for both of us; it will not be our last. It is a chain restaurant but you wouldn't know it, not only was the service exceptional the food was out of this world. In this months Chicago Monthly Bandera was voted as having the city's best Veggie Burger! While we haven't caucussed on this I believe this to be the new restaurant to take out of town guests to. Yeah for you guests!

In conclusion, we would like to higly reccomend both the boat and the restarant as a nice and I must say somewhat grown up Chicago night out!