Time for a look back at one of our favorite events of the whole year…our annual trip north for Combo Breaker!

We were able to leave pretty early last Tuesday, which was nice. It was even nicer that we didn’t have to drive through a dust storm! We stopped at Wally’s, as is our tradition:

And we took a brief detour to see this year’s Umbrella Sky Project in Elmhurst. I was really excited to see it, because the color scheme is different this year, but they were all closed, most likely due to recent windy and (ironically) rainy weather. It did still look cool in its own way, but I’m a little sad we didn’t get the full effect.

After that we went to the hotel, where we had some challenges getting checked in, but got things worked out eventually.

We stopped at Meijer (which is a treat for us) for some supplies for our week in Schaumburg:

And then we went back to the hotel for a swim and some games in the hotel lobby.

Up next: Our annual day in Chicago!