Day Two Hundred and Sixty Three.

    I'm going to write about yesterday before today so I can finish up the vacation blogging. I was certainly upset when I woke up yesterday morning because we had to head home:( We didn't really rush getting out of the room because we had a late check out at 1pm. When we were finally packed I wanted to do a little bit of last minute shopping including grabbing some of the famous "Garrett's" caramel popcorn, before eating lunch, then heading to the airport. I wanted to get my Mother a present for watching my dog so I got her the popcorn. For lunch I wanted to have one more slice of Chicago style pizza so we went to "Lou Malnati's". We had previously went to "Giordano's", which had more cheese with more crust. I liked them both but I think I do like "Lou Malnati's" a little bit better if I had to say.
    We went to the airport after we ate lunch and I absolutely hate flying so I got a little bit grumpy. The thing which made it worse was the fact that even though we weren't going far we had to take two separate flights. We finally got back home around 10:30pm and my best friend picked us up from the airport. We ended up just ordering some dinner from our favorite local restaurant, when we got back to my house, because my Mother hadn't eaten yet and neither had we.
    When I woke up in the morning I could barely open my eyes because I was so tired and I didn't even stay up that late. I realize we really didn't have a lot of down time on our vacation because we wanted to get so much in. Some of these vacations are not that relaxing! It was entirely worth it though because I would go back to Chicago in a heart beat. My boyfriend didn't stay here that long this morning because he had to get back to his house, so when he left I spent the day unpacking and spending time with my Mother. I did get most of my laundry done which is going to be nice, to start the week out with that out of the way.
    I've been home for not even 24 hours and I'm already falling into my old hand washing habits. It's mainly because of the unpacking and doing the laundry. I feel slightly guilty because I insisted to my boyfriend that he would have to do his own laundry. When we went on a cruise last year I did all of the laundry when we got home and it took me several days to get it done. I didn't think it would be fair this time for me to have to do it all and he said that was fine. I'm definitely not looking forward to going back to work and it's gotten me slightly down today. I'm grateful that my Mother was still here today so I wouldn't be all alone. Alright, well back to the grind tomorrow.