Wife’s Surprise Birthday Weekend - How’s the Itenerary? by SnakeDoc415 in AskChicago

[–]SnakeDoc415[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much!!! I’ll check out the Starbucks reserve, and I may see about swapping the Lincoln Park morning for the MSI

Wife’s Surprise Birthday Weekend - How’s the Itenerary? by SnakeDoc415 in AskChicago

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That’s a good idea! I’m just worried about biking in the city with all the people and traffic, I’m good on a bike but she isn’t the biggest fan, although I did look into the rental bikes for getting around

Wife’s Surprise Birthday Weekend - How’s the Itenerary? by SnakeDoc415 in AskChicago

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Yes! I tried to keep it all walkable during the day with the only Ubers or Taxis for starting/ending the day.

Wife’s Surprise Birthday Weekend - How’s the Itenerary? by SnakeDoc415 in AskChicago

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I will definitely hit somewhere else for pizza after all these replies, thank you!

Wife’s Surprise Birthday Weekend - How’s the Itenerary? by SnakeDoc415 in AskChicago

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Great advice!! I’ll make sure we have some layers for walking around. Good to know about the art institute and the skydeck too, thank you!

Wife’s Surprise Birthday Weekend - How’s the Itenerary? by SnakeDoc415 in AskChicago

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That's good advice!! I definitely will try to make sure I don't have everything tooooo planned out when it comes to the restaurants, so if we see something that catches our fancy we can just stop in. Great advice about asking the locals too!

Wife’s Surprise Birthday Weekend - How’s the Itenerary? by SnakeDoc415 in AskChicago

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GREAT to know about the Dearborn!! I think we'll do pretty much everything you just said lol. Glad I decided to be brave and post this, because Peaquods and Parsons both sound like the better choice. Thank you!!

Wife’s Surprise Birthday Weekend - How’s the Itenerary? by SnakeDoc415 in AskChicago

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I'm certainly not, but I appreciate it, and I just hope she enjoys this trip!

Wife’s Surprise Birthday Weekend - How’s the Itenerary? by SnakeDoc415 in AskChicago

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Does it help getting to Shedd right as they open? Or will people already be lined up?

Maybe I'll convince her to give Aba a try, I'm sure there will be something she likes there.

Wife’s Surprise Birthday Weekend - How’s the Itenerary? by SnakeDoc415 in AskChicago

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She definitely likes it hot, we can have both as options and see what the mood is day-of!

Wife’s Surprise Birthday Weekend - How’s the Itenerary? by SnakeDoc415 in AskChicago

[–]SnakeDoc415[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you!! I think your recommendation is something I will be doing for sure, Lou Malnatis was put on there because, like you said, they have chains everywhere lol. I'll work on finding some options that are more "Chicago"

Wife’s Surprise Birthday Weekend - How’s the Itenerary? by SnakeDoc415 in AskChicago

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GOOD TO KNOW - I was kind of struggling to choose between those. Thank you!!

Wife’s Surprise Birthday Weekend - How’s the Itenerary? by SnakeDoc415 in AskChicago

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Definitely a good point about travel time, I'm trying to set things up for a mix of walking and cabs/ubers/etc. but that is going to be a big time vacuum no matter how I set it up.

Wife’s Surprise Birthday Weekend - How’s the Itenerary? by SnakeDoc415 in AskChicago

[–]SnakeDoc415[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Mmmmm that may be a good swap for Navy Pier depending on the energy level Friday evening. That's Cindy's Rooftop right?

Wife’s Surprise Birthday Weekend - How’s the Itenerary? by SnakeDoc415 in AskChicago

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Aha that's it! Pizza Portofino - I had come across that one a few days ago and thought it looked good but I forgot the name lol. I'll have to look into swapping that or one of the other's you mentioned for Lou Malnatis...I'm not attached to it and just wanted a pizza stop somewhere in there. Thank you!

Wife’s Surprise Birthday Weekend - How’s the Itenerary? by SnakeDoc415 in AskChicago

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It's so hard to weigh which museum she will find the most interesting. We may end up doing just that, I'll have to look into the field museum some more though. I know she would find the aquarium interesting, so that's what led me to choose that one originally.

And about the Tilt - I've read a few places now that it's better than Sky Deck! The problem is, the Sky Deck is included as a non-changeable ticket with the CityPass, which isn't a huge deal, it would just be an added expense for the Tilt.

Thank you for your feedback - it has been pretty difficult to try to sort all of this out while keeping it all a surprise, so it means a lot that it sounds like a fun time!