2021 started off pretty slow, we started January off with some date nights, and ended the month with a trip to northern Illinois with my parents, my sister and her boyfriend and Chaitan. It was SO COLD out but we had a good weekend in this house that looked out to the Chain O’Lakes.
February started with us toasting the Super Bowl with our siblings and some more date nights since restaurants were starting to own up again. We went on a Valentine’s Day double date with my sister and her boyfriends which was super fun! We then spend actual Valentine’s Day in the city.
We ended the month with a trip to Michigan with close friends of ours. It was filled with memories, a crazy airbnb situation which resulted in us moving houses, snowmobiles and breweries! Honestly one of my most favorite weekend trips to date. The whole trip is highlighted here.
March and April were particularly uneventful, really more date nights, and meeting each others friends and extended families
We spend the first few weeks of May driving the Pacific coast where Chaitan proposed to me.
June we started planning our engagement party, and my BFF got engaged. It was nice to share the joys of engagement together! The beginning of July we had a good friends engagement part. On July 11th was our engagement party AND my fiancés birthday. We had an afterparty after the engagement party at a local bar.
At the end of July I book a Getaway House in Michigan for Chaitan’s birthday. It was a nice rest and restoration weekend in the middle of nowhere! I drove my first ATV on that trip! We went blueberry picking and probably ate more than we picked LOL.
In August we went to Portland for Chaitan’s cousins wedding with was a great time!
We ended August with the Maroon 5 concert in Milwaukee with some fiends. This was my first concert at that amphitheater, which was a cool experience!
September we celebrated our first anniversary. Chaitan planned a night at a vegan restaurant called Bloom. It was shockingly amazing and I love diary but I didn’t really miss it. The restaurant was still new so it was BYOB, we brought one of our favorite wines from Geneva Winery! On the actual day of our anniversary we went on a sunset cruise on the river, which was fun!
At the end of September I hosted my cousins sprinkle at my place, then we were down to the river for lunch. It was a beautiful afternoon celebrating baby boy Vyas!
In October we made a trip to Six Flags for Fright Fest which was a blast as usual, honestly I love amusement parks! We ended the night at none other than Olive Garden!
October was uneventful until my birthday, I usually talk the day off for my birthday and so did Chaitan. In the morning, I went on a walk on the river with my BFF Justyna, I got coffee and a donut for my birthday morning. Then Chaitan and I went to lunch followed by cocktails on at London House. We then headed to the burbs to cut a cake for my birthday and Chaitan’s moms birthday, then we headed back to the city to have dinner at Eately.
We ended October with a FALL DAY at Jack’s pumpkin popup, one of my favorite things do to in the fall.
November was filled with Diwali, holiday things and wedding planning. We were in the busy parts of wedding planning by this point and it was overwhelming. We took pictured for our save the date! We went to Geneva Winery to celebrate my parents birthday, after we went to this Italian restaurant that was legit in a house. We also went back to Geneva Winery to celebrate my sisters birthday early in the first week of December.
We went to out annual bar crawl for the holidays in December with our friends, my FAVORITE time of the year! We went to 4 bars in Wrigleyville.
We headed to Texas in mid December for my cousins baby shower, which was a good weekend trip to escape the cold weather! We ended the year off with MORE CHRISTMAS THINGS around Chicago. We ended 2021 at our friends place with a Bollywood themed NYE party!
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