The Hamstras: ChiTag – Emma’s TV debut :)

Last weekend we went up to Chicago to Navy Pier for their annual Toy and Game fair. Emma had joined a group through Girl Scouts to play a card game called Top Trumps. All the Girl Scouts were planning to play the game to try break the World Record for the most people playing cards in one place at one time. (sadly, they didn’t break the record).

We decided to make it a fun family day but weren’t so sure about the handicap accessibility for Laila so she had to stay behind with “bamma & papa" which was sad but she loves to spend time with them and it gave us a great opportunity to be able to scope things out for bringing her next time. We found all the right train and bus stations to be able to take her next time!

We caught a 6:15 train into Millennium station and then found our way to the bus to catch to Navy Pier. We had a little extra time so we walked around a bit on State street and showed the kids some fun stuff like being able to see them taping the morning news are the ABC station. Little did we know that Emma would be on that news a few hours later!!

We got over to Navy Pier and found where we needed to be and right away they ushered us in and said that since Emma was there early she was going to be able to be on the news!! I guess that made that SUPER EARLY morning all worth it! They had table set up to have girls playing the card game while the news interviewed the inventors of the game. You can see the video here.

We had never been to the Toy and Game fair but we had so much fun!! We didn’t stay too long because we were missing our Laila and were stuck to a train schedule but here are some fun pictures. We’re asking grandparents for museum and aquarium memberships for Christmas this year since we’re blessed with so many toys and clothes already so hopefully there will be many more fun trips to Chicago with everyone in our near future :)

Jackson was so excited about this because he’s been really getting into Star Wars lately.