So, last night we stayed at the House of Blues Hotel which I’ve always wanted to stay at since their rooms have SO much character compared to any other hotel I’ve seen. Well, the room was pretty cool, including a little round ottoman (or more like a tuffet) that I wish I could’ve fit in my suitcase cuz I need one of those and it was funky cool but for some reason it just didn’t have that spark for us as the greatest hotel room to spend our weekend in Chicago in. SOOOO, we cancelled our 2nd night there and made reservations for tonight at the Hotel Monaco and I’m pretty sure THIS is the hotel I want to stay in every time I visit my favorite city now.

Everything about it is just ‘me’. It oozes with character in an old 1920’s built hotel style that’s been updated but still has it’s charm. They even describe the walls in the rooms as having pistachio and butter cream stripes. Sounds like a cupcake doens’t it? :) And they’ve thought of EVERYTHING. Seriously, everything. They have leopard print robes in the closet, 2 pair of brand new fuzzy super soft socks (you know the ones), an umbrella in the closet in case there’s rain. There are these windows at the end of the room with striped cushion seats to sit and look at the view. And the view is amazing! We have a perfect view of the river, a beautiful old building across the street and in the other direction we can see the Sears Tower. AND they have this thing they call ‘Guppy Love’ where they bring to your room a complimentary goldfish to keep you company during your stay. In fact for us they brought TWO goldfish. We named them Monaco and Minico since one is quite a bit bigger than the other. How fun is that?! The only thing we’ll be leaving this room for is food. Apart from that I think they’re gonna have to kick us out. We almost went to another play this afternoon but we got too wrapped up into taking pictures of our new room. Unfortunately I discovered quickly once the card was full that I didn’t bring my cord to transfer any of them. So, photos of Monaco and Minico will have to wait till I get home. *edited to add the photos of Monaco & Minico*

Kay, gotta get ready in my FUN new red dress with sparkles on it and I’m gonna wear it with my favorite jeans and my shiny red shoes (thank you Kim). Totally funky, totally whimsical, totally me and probably something I can only pull off here. Gonna need lots more courage to be ‘totally me’ in Michigan but that’s somethin’ I plan to work on. That and not being ashamed to take my camera out when I really wanna capture something. I’m a work in progress. :)