Hey y’all! I am so excited to finally get Chicago pictures up on the blog! I have about six thousand pictures, and I have had such a hard time choosing which ones to post, so there will probably be more than one recap. Can’t help it because it was a wonderful trip!

Ok, y’all know I was pretty nervous about the flight. It wasn’t as bad as I had built it up in my mind to be, but it definitely didn’t go according to plan. After an unplanned stop in Indy, we made it to Chicago three hours late. Not fun, but all of the craziness was worth it when we finally got to meet Meghan!

Seriously, y’all, Meghan is the sweetest person ever! She was a wonderful tour guide and had so many fun things planned for us to do. I am so glad to be able to call her a friend!

Wednesday night, Meghan took us to one of her favorite restaurants. The food was sooo good! It was a lot of fun to just get to sit and chat for awhile.

Thursday morning, those cray cray girls got up at a ridiculous hour and went to a bar method class. Not gonna lie, I stayed in bed, and it was wonderful!

We went to brunch at Bongo Room.

The food was amazing!

After brunch, we headed over to Harpo Studios!

The street in front of the studio was recently named after Oprah!

I was so excited! It was at the top of my list of things to do in Chicago, and it was awesome!

We also went across the street to the Oprah store!

Lindsey came too!

We did a little bit of shopping…

Target has an elevator…

…and an escalator! My first thought when I saw them was ‘oh my goodness, Tara would just die!’

After shopping, then went over to the Willis Tower skydeck. It was exciting and scary all at the same time!

The view from the top

I was super scared, but Meghan and Neely held my hands and I put my big girl panties on and stepped out onto the plexiglass ledge!

Crazy girls

We had some pizza!

Seriously, would a trip to Chicago be complete without some pizza?

After we ate, we went over to Meghan’s apartment.

Her apartment is just adorable!

We found out that there were a lot of celebs in town, so we did some stalking .

Trump Hotel & Tower
We didn’t find anyone :(

Ok, to keep this post from being ridiculously long, I’m going to stop here. Part 2 will be up tomorrow!