High Society

The past couple of days I have been on a little adventure. My husband had a training for work in the suburbs of Chicago, and I decided to tag along. We left the kids with my mom – it was the first time both of us had been away from them at the same time! Bobby works for a Lexus dealership, so they gave us a 2008 Lexus IS300 to drive on our trip.

So, while my husband was in class, I was let loose to roam the suburbs of Chicago in a fancy car. Which, thank goodness, also has a fancy navigation system, because I have no sense of direction whatsoever (unlike Emily, who I like to call the Human GPS). Said car was so fancy, that you don’t even have to use the key to start it or unlock it. All you have to do is have the key (called a Smart Key) on your person, and get near the car, and it unlocks. Then you get in the car and you press a button to start it and turn it off. When you get out of the car, you just press a button on the door handle to lock it. Woo-wee! I love it! It’s always a pain to mess with my keys when I am trying to carry my kids and groceries and whatever else. So needless to say, I am very sad to give this car back and give up my precious, precious Smart Key. *Le Sigh*.

But anyhoo, in my fancy car, I tooled around the fancy suburbs and went shopping at the fancy outlet malls. It was super-fun. And after Bobby’s day of training was over, we tooled around together, eating out at fancy places and getting coffee at the fancy Starbucks and just generally being awesome. We had a great time together.

Of course, we really missed the kids. Our second night away, I was just longing for my babies.

But I’m so glad Bobby and I got the chance to have a bunch of fun just being together (and being very fancy.)