Quinn in the City

Karin, Quinn and I took a little road trip to the big city of Chicago to get my Dutch passport renewed and to get Quinn one as well. It was her first trip out of state. It takes about 4 hours by car to get there. Quinn slept during a good part of the trip. We did make one stop of course to feed her and ourselves....

We stayed at the Doubletree hotel just one block away from the Magnificant Mile and very close to the Dutch Consulate. This way we could easily go back to the hotel to feed Quinn and get out quickly to continue whatever we were doing (read shopping :-) )

Chilling at the hotel with Karin......
Wow, this is a big bathtub.....she looks so tiny in it. Pretty soon I do have to start giving her her baths in our bathtub as well, since her babytub is getting pretty small for her.
Taking a break while shopping. When Ryan saw this picture he was relieved to see we were on the "right" side of the Coach store. With that he meant we were on the outside and not on the inside.....

We bought Quinn a little summer hat and of course we had to try it on. She didn't mind having something on her head. The big smile said thank you mommy all over!

After a day of shopping, you can get pretty tired......I LOVE it when she falls asleep in my arms like this.

We brought her portable crib in which she slept like a baby. She continued 9 hour stretches at night in Chicago as well, which was very nice for me and Karin.

Besides shopping, we had to go the the Dutch Consulate as well of course, since that was the actual purpose of our trip. Luckily the passport pictures were good, so we had no problems getting our passports. We had to have our picture taken at Sears Photo Studio ahead of time, where they have the requirements for Dutch passports. It took a good hour and 3 tries to get it correct. Wow. Next time (5 years from now) I'm going to try to have them taken in Holland, which is a lot easier and cheaper...