Weekend Review and Meal Planning Monday

Well hello there! Hope your weekend was wonderful... we definitely had a great one!! I spent Friday hanging out with some of my Alabama friends! Such a fun day!! I got to play "tour guide" {although between the fact that we have only lived here less than a month and that I have a terrible sense of direction I was not the best tour guide there ever was, ha!}. We did have a blast though. We went to Navy Pier, rode the ferris wheel, we took a few water taxis, and checked out the view from the John Hancock Building just to name the highlights of our sight seeing! Funny enough, I ended up taking three different water taxis on Friday, and the same crew was on all three... they definitely gave me a "welcome aboard again" when I got on the third one! 

Here is a pic of us waiting for one of the water taxis...

It was a great day!

After touring the city with my sweet friends, I met Z at the theater to see the Dark Knight Rises... he was pretty excited! And it was a really great film. We also grabbed some dinner at Heaven on Seven, which is a cajun restaurant right off of Michigan Avenue [I had heard good things, but the food was just ok in my opinion]. A few other highlights of our weekend were the Museum of Science and Industry...

waiting for the bus at the museum

Z at the circus exhibit, haha!

Z thought it was hilarious that this tire was taller than I am lol

and our new roller blades... more on that later though ;) 

Overall, it was just a great weekend!

Anyways... moving on to menu planning Monday! It really was nice to already have our meals planned for last week. I even asked Z one night what he wanted for dinner, and he said just check the blog, ha! 

So here is the menu for this week...

Monday- I'm having dinner with my teacher friends before they leave town... 

              Z  will probably have a pb&j sandwich and Ramen noodles ;)

Tuesday- blackened chicken, yellow rice, steamed vegetables

Wednesday- Z's favorite... red beans and rice with sausage

Thursday- grilled chicken fajitas

Friday- grilled burgers with pretzel buns because my family will be here!!!!

Saturaday- brunch at Yolk! Exploring the city!!!

Sunday- breakfast pizza {original recipe from my dad, this is a lighter version!}  and blueberry crumble bars, hot dogs at the Cubs game!

Can you tell I'm a little excited to have my family in town?!?! Can.not.wait! ;)

Hope you have a great week!