The Christmas We Almost Didn't Escape

It was a Westbrook Christmas year in 2015, so Eddy and I enjoyed a great trip to Chicago (in addition to all of the family festivities). We can't got to Chicago without visiting the zoo!

They had their Xmas decorations up while we were there.

So we mocked them.

Or maybe it was just me.

No, it was Eddy too. To be clear, this is an actual zoo exhibit. Not sure which is worse.

We always stay on the Magnificent Mile and we did the usual dorky stuff there.

We also somehow managed to learn about Ceci's history project from grade school (?!)

So that's a thing that happened.

The most alarming thing, though, was that on the day we were set to leave Chicago actual wintry weather happened and we *almost* did not make it back to sunny CA!

If our flight had not departed O'Hare that night, we were sure to be stuck there for at least a week! (We know many who were.) So here's to a great Christmas trip and here's to just barely escaping Chicago in time.