Chicago Deep Dish Pizza

Thursday, July 30, 2009
First we wanted to give a shout out to our friend Mona W. who celebrated a birthday today. Hope it was a great one. In the morning we broke camp and spent a little extra time sorting and re-packing the car. Today we journey to the Chicago area and that is where Aunty Up and Logan will be leaving our adventure. We needed to extract their stuff and get them ready to leave. Everyone is sad because this is our last day together. Mama will miss the adult company. It will be sad not to hear Logan’s suggestions for dinner and his interesting comments on what we see and do. We decide to drive to skirt Chicago – the kids give thumbs down to exploring another big city, so we choose to go to Joliet to a hotel near I-55 so Uncle Tom will not have trouble meeting us. We arrive with no problems, to find that Tom has beaten us to our destination and we quickly settle in. The kids run to swim in the pool! We decide to go out and sample Chicago deep dish pizza. We end up at a little bar – Maurie’s Table. The kids play some video games and enjoy some appetizers as we wait an almost endless 40 minutes for our pizza to cook. We agree that it is delicious but there is a lot of it left over. Deep dish pizza is filling! We get back to the hotel quite late. A rousing pillow fight marks Logan’s last night with us and we all tuck in.