Froelich's Frolics

For our vacation this year, we made a trip to Texas. We flew from Indy to Dallas on June 9th, and returned home on the 16th. It was a great trip! We spent the first few days with my best friend Amy, who lives in Fort Worth. It was so nice of her to let us stay at her house. That saved us a lot of money. We also spent a couple days in San Antonio. I will try to do a separate post on the major things we did/places we went, but here is a brief overview of our trip. We went to the Fort Worth Stockyards (Historic part of the city) on Saturday evening for dinner and a rodeo, which was cool. You can't go to Texas and not go to a rodeo, you know. We attended two different churches on Sunday. I think it is neat to see other churches worship. The people at both churches were very friendly and welcoming. The sermons were good and Biblical. The music was a little different than what we have at our church, but still good. We toured the Dallas Cowboys stadium on Monday. That place is HU...

Today we have been married for a full year. It does not seem possible. It seems like just last month we were getting ready for the wedding. It has been a wonderful experience. Married life is amazing. It is awesome being married to your best friend. This is us last year: And this is us tonight: We thawed out the cake we saved from the wedding, and each had a piece. It still tasted pretty good for being frozen for a whole year. Here is one of the anniversary gifts I received from Carl. I have it on the piano for now. I really like it.

We are in Chicago! So far, everything is going well. We got a little later start out than we wanted, so we got caught up in rush hour traffic on the expressway. But other than that, all has gone well. We rented a Nissian Versa for our trip. We saw these windmills on the way up. There were probably hundreds of them. We are staying at the Ambassador East Hotel here in Chicago. We booked the room through Priceline. We were surprised to find out that we have a suite for our room. It is really nice. Here are some pics of the suite: We had dinner at Texas de Brazil. If you haven't heard of it, it is a Brazilian steakhouse, where you can eat from a salad bar like you have never seen, and then are served cuts of different types of meat by carvers that come to your table. We had sirloin, chicken, lamb, filet mignon and barbecue pork. I am not really a meat person, and I loved it! We were so full after dinner. The restaurant had an acrobat performing for the guests. She posed for a picture. ...

Carl and I have been talking about going to Chicago for our first anniversary (strange to be already talking about our anniversary!). We plan on going up there for a couple of days. We have a few things on our to-do list while we are there, but this is where y'all come in. We need suggestions on things to do. What are some must-see/must-do attractions? I haven't been to Chicago since I was in elementary school, which was a long time ago. We are kinda on a budget, so if you all have any ideas on keeping costs down, that would be great! Any suggestions on a place to stay? Leave a comment with any suggestions. We would appreciate it! We can't wait to go!