During the first week of January, I was looking over my schedule for 2009, and I happened to notice that I was going to have a three day weekend in February. The reason that I was going to have a three day weekend was because my boss was kind enough to schedule a day off for us on President’s Day.

Normally, when I have a three day weekend, I just use it as an opportunity to relax and catch up on some much needed sleep. However, since I noticed this three day weekend over a month in advance, I decided that it would be fun to use it to take a short trip. After looking at the prices of some different plane tickets, I decided to book one for Chicago and use my three days to visit my Mom.

I wanted my visit to be a complete surprise to my Mom, so when I arrived at the Chicago airport, I picked up a rental car and headed over to her place. She was obviously ecstatic to see me, and we had a great three days together in the city of Chicago.