Today was our annual family Bears game. It was a gorgeous and sunny fall day – perfect for football!! We were originally going to scrape up a 5th ticket for me, but after looking at prices, I decided Brian could just take the boys. Next year I’m going for sure!!

We spend the night downtown at the closest Marriott family hotel (thank you Marriott travel points!) It made the tailgating arrival time of 8:15 totally doable! plus it was within walking distance (2ish miles) of the stadium so I was able to leave after tailgating this morning and walk back later (post nap, starbucks coffee and book time).

Last night we ordered some really great Chinese food and sushi to our room and watched a bunch of TV on cushy beds (p.s. Logan likes tempura shrimp and tuna/avacado sushi…the other boys not so much).

Look at this swanky place! Logan actually said, “why are we staying here? It’s so nice! What if we accidentally destroy it”. I kinda had the same thought! ;)

Ug – blurry pics! Bag from Hot Wok, Cool Sushi Logan poses with sushi.

Chilling at the hotel. ahhhh

View from the room. The lit up windows in the far-off building say “We Hire Vets”

Brian cooked up some awesome tailgate food for us: ribs and big chicken legs with some homemade spicy hash browns and cornbread. We saw lots of cool Bears cars and silly fan-stuff on the way in!

Brady loves chilling in the van-chairs with his IBC Root beer

Burnham Harbor lot for tailgating…great because you can throw rocks in the lake and feed cornbread to the ducks. Bad because mommy freaks out that you’re going to fall in and makes you stay like WAY TOO FAR BACK!

Halloween candy for dessert…three lollipops at a time, why not?!  

Our friends Joel and Kristin were at the game as well (anniversary celebration). They joined us for pre-game fun and ended up sitting right in front of Brian and the boys! Kristin sent me this picture from the game with the message “we miss you!” NEXT YEAR I’M GOING TOO!!! (Oh – Logan had packed some acrylic paint so I did a C on one cheek for him and lots of war-paint on all the other cheeks right before they went in)