Hello from Chicago!
Today was mostly spent inside my car, as it took Susan and I about 9 hours to drive from Canada to Chicago. Even though we brought enough food to feed a small family, after passing a million and a half Wendy’s signs on the highway I began to wonder what cinnamon hummus would taste like on chili. I had to know!
Looked kind of weird.
Tasted pretty good 
The whole thing got us some weird looks, and we heard someone say “They’re from Canada”. Bahahaha.
Once we got parked and into our room and unpacked and settled in, I realized I was pretty hungry and made a cinnamon hummus sandwich with 2 cookies, and ate some more hummus with apple slices.
It was almost 5:00, so we headed down to pick up our swag!
I’ll probably show the contents of the bag later, but I will say now that it was pretty awesome 
I broke out one of the mini Larabars to eat before getting ready for the cocktail party.
We primped, polished and gussied up to our finest
The cocktail party was held at LaSalle Power Co, which wasn’t too far from the hotel.
Unfortunately, although I’ve been legal in Canada for almost 2 years now, I’m still not 21 and had to get the dreaded X’s. Boo 
We grabbed some food when we first went in, and I was a little nervous so I wasn’t too hungry. I had a mini turkey slider, a caprese skewer, a tortilla chip with spinach dip and some salad.
And club soda to drink all night. Bubbly!
I got to meet tons of awesome ladies, and it was kind of a blur because there were so many new faces and names and I just couldn’t keep them all straight. Tomorrow is going to be insane!
Me, Theresa and Allie.
Roomies! Susan, me, Theresa and Julie.
It was so packed!
They also had a fun photobooth that you could go into and take pictures We crammed all of us inside and went crazy!
Hillary and I.
Caitlin and I
And most of the Toronto girls! Me, Sarah, Morgan, Theresa (honorable Toronto girl lol) and Miranda. All looking beautiful
There was a frozen yogurt trip in the making after the cocktail party, but somehow it went wrong and we all ended up scattering back to the hotel for an earlier night. I was pretty hungry, so I ate a Luna bar (and 2 unpictured cookies).
And now it’s past my bedtime so I’m off to get ready for bed Today was a little nerve-wracking with the driving and meeting so many people, and tomorrow should be pretty crazy too. See you tomorrow!
