Chicago CHA Girls' Weekend!

I love looking through all these pictures. My friend Heidi and I and our new friend Rebecca drove to Chicago at 4am on Friday morning to attend the summer CHA.

It was sooo much fun. The trip included:

• Delicious pizza at Giordano's
• A fabulous hotel room
• Estate sales and church rummage sales
• CHA!
• $$ leaving my wallet in exchange for crafting supplies
• a drive past Navy Pier (parking was $24! - NO thanks)
• Gorgeous Japanese craft books from a Japanese super market
• IKEA!
• Make and takes from CHA - love freebies!
• Sleeping in
• THE best estate sale finds (Heidi would agree, I think!)
  
• Slurpees from 7-11
• $22/day for parking at OUR HOTEL - yikes.
  
• Hours and hours talking and cultivating friendships
• Learning how to use my new camera (uh...work in progress?)
• Rearranging all our purchases in the parking lot of IKEA so we could fit it all in my Rodeo...that was a sight!
• A picnic basket that leaked and stained the carpet of the hotel -oops!

All in all it was a whirlwind trip. So much fun in such a short time. I really hope Heidi and Rebecca want to go again next year. I'd definitely be up for it!