Sweet Home Chicago

On one of our shows, they focused a lot on a couple that moved to the suburbs but longed to move back to the city. Every so often, family members and such try to pressure us to move to the suburbs, but we can only picture raising our family in the city. We are constantly amazed by how much Chicago has to offer, even during the winter months. Though I have lived in the city for several years before meeting A and the pooches, I have never experienced so much of the city until I had pooches to walk. This mild winter has allowed us to enjoy many aspects of the city including leisure walks to the park for

  people watching, hanging out on park benches with the pooches and

checking out and posing in front of holiday lights.

Especially in our neighborhood, we can enjoy local art on the walls of numerous buildings, street signs, dumpsters, mailboxes, etc., and even on sidewalks and

enjoy all sorts of different cuisines, which are just a short jaunt from our home, plus we can pick up dinner while on our daily walk.

We love how our neighborhood is so vibrant and colorful and there are so many different cultures intertwined in such a small area. Also, even in the winter, we love how we can run into many of our old friends and meet so many new people just walking down the street, including

a whole bunch of tourists visiting our neighborhood or even visiting the city on a pub crawl trolley.

When it is just the four or sometimes five of us, the city offers us a place to take some family photos.