Thanks everyone!
We're back and had a great time at the beach. We went to North Beach, O&H and the zoo. We went out in the evening and figured that the quilt stores would be closed but DH pulled into the JoAnns lot to surpise me. I picked up a couple more pieces of red/white fabric and a really pretty navy/white batik for the bears paw (?). Kids were less than thrilled but tolerant LOL. The JoAnns in town is very nice & geared towards quilters. It's much nicer than ours and the staff was really helpful-----bonus** everything I picked was on sale, too! I love it when that happens.
We stayed at the Mariott and raved about the breakfast...They had Kringle...It's the little things in life :D
We stayed in Chicago a couple nights at the Sheraton on the Chicago river----with a view of the lake/partial view of downtown. BEAUTIFUL! We went to the pier, did some shopping on michigan ave. We even made time to go to the Billy Goat Tavern (original location) and Shedd Aquarium. A nice little trip before school starts....I'm counting the days!!!
We're all walking around going cheezborger cheezborger no pepsi, coke no fries, chips. The guys really did say that and also I order for you double cheezborger it's good, you like. LOL It was like a skit straight out of an old SNL episode.