Things I want to do

[sillygoosegirl]

Things I want to do while we live in Chicago:

Go on an overnight biking trip along part of the G.I.T.

Go to Europe?

Spend a night or two at a B&B in the woods when there is snow on the ground.

Go to a Cubs game.

Go up in the John Hancock building (again--went when I was in high school).

See the Chicago Board of Trade (again--went when I was in high school)

Go backpacking in Shenandoah National Park

Things I've done (or scheduled) from the above list as of Nov 16th, 2007

Go to Rockford at least once more, and at least once during the summer.

Go to New York (specifically Niagara Falls and Watkins Glen)

Go backpacking in Shawnee National Forest.

Go to Cancun.

Things I've done since moving to Chicago which I'd recommend other temporary Chicago-ites do at least once before moving away:

Visit the Field Museum.

Visit the Museum of Science and Industry.

Visit the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford (well, maybe not worth the trip all on it's own--but if you go to Rockford).

Bike the drive.

Bike the Skokie sculpture garden.

Go on an architecture boat tour.

Visit the Baha'i temple in Wilmette.

Go swimming in the lake.

Bike the Elroy-Sparta trail (Wisconsin).

Other things I've done while failing to do the things which are actually on my list:

Hiking at Starved Rock State Park

"Backpacking" at Rock Island State Park (Wisconsin)

Backpacking at Black River State Forest (Wisconsin)

Anybody want to suggest things to add to these lists? Anything particularly worth doing that I might have missed or not know about?

Now that it looks like Josh may not be staying for his Ph.D., and therefore could be done with grad school before our lease is up next summer (this is totally not for sure yet, but looks reasonably likely), it looks like we could have a pretty busy year ahead of us if we try to do everything on my list. But I think I see that as a good thing.