Trip #1 ...

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Our first trip is going to be to Chicago. We will be spending St. Patrick's Day weekend there, so the kids will be able to see the parade and the green river. We have booked a hotel on the outskirts of the city because the hotel that we had hoped to get into was already booked.

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It should be a really fun weekend. We will be arriving in the city in the early afternoon on Friday, March 14th and will be staying there until Sunday evening. It will be a short trip, but a trip nonetheless, and I am excited to take the kids out and about. We plan on visiting the Shedd Aquarium and the Hancock Building as well as doing some shopping.

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In light of our year of making memories Bob and I decided to invest in a good quality camera. We decided to purchase a Nikon D3100. Bob is the picture guru, so he did all of the leg work in deciding brand, etc...We didn't want to spend an arm and a leg on this camera, but also didn't want to go with the basic camera that we have always had. The camera is arriving on Wednesday. I am really excited to learn how to use it so that I can capture all of the memories that I can.