Happy New Year!

I still couldn't believe we went to Navy Pier for New Years' Eve!! We haven't been "celebrating" New Years for the past few years, I mean with a little baby, we'd rather stay home, watch TV, play with the little one and just relax. This year, with the 2 teenagers staying here, they really really want to go somewhere and do the "count down". Where can they go? The only place I can think of was the Navy Pier, no age limit, tons of people and fireworks. After a long talk to dear hubby, finally he agreed to drive us to Navy Pier (hubby hates crowd and traffics). We left home around 10:30pm, there were almost no traffic at all, I thought it would probably takes us at least an hour to get to Nave Pier, but we got there in about half hour. And then we thought that we probably won't find parking, we did and it was in Navy Pier's parking garage (unbelievable, I think the "bad luck" had already gone somewhere else)! Everything was great, we did the "count down", watched the fireworks for 15 minutes, the girls were jumping, screaming, calling their friends to wish them Happy New Year, they were EXCITED!

So, 12:30AM we went back to our car, we parked on the 7th floor of the garage, we started to drive, got to the 5th floor, then a complete stop. We sat in the same spot for like 45 minutes, finally started to move slowly, it took an hour to leave the parking garage. Good thing was that the traffic coming home wasn't so bad, and the girls were watching a movie in the backseats the whole time (aren't we a great host or what?).

Well, the girls are going back to school tomorrow, let's hope their flight will be on-time, no more delay, no more cancellation. I need a break too! Most importantly, I need my knitting time back!