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The final stages of my weekend with Quaker:

After listening to, and having conversation with some brilliant minds, we were blessed to have a cooking demo with Stephanie Izard, the winner of Top Chef!  She was amazing.  She made oatmeal, banana pancakes.  Then she made a pomagranate syrup to go on top.  She used pomagranate/ blueberry juice and honey over the stove top.  This week I will find variations of this, because it was delicious without any HFCS, and less sugar than I use when I make syrup myself.  I know my kids would dig this!

After that, we had a fancy, schmany dinner at the restaraunt MK.  The best part for me was the Quaker apple crisp dessert, with ice cream on top!  Dessert at a fancy restaraunt is dreamy to me.

My Sunday flight wasn’t supposed to leave until after 5pm, but there was a 10am flight I wanted to try to fly standby on (I missed my family and the festivities were over anyway).  When I first arrived on Friday I planned to take a cab to the hotel because I was so late getting in, and I was unfamiliar with Chicago.  I walked out of the airport and a guy was waiting on the curb and asked me if I needed a cab.  I said, Yes, and he said follow me.  We walked all around the parking garage until we came upon his private car!!! I was freaked out, but got in anyway because I’m dumb that way.  He drove like a maniac. In and out of traffic, laying on his horn. But we made it to the hotel and he charged me $60!!! 

So returning to the airport, I decided to take the train.  I was short on time, and wanted to be first on the stand by list, but I did not want to take another “cab”.  After walking 15 minutes, boarding the train, getting off the train due to track construction, boarding a bus, getting off the bus and back onto the train, getting to the airport, finding the terminal, spending 40 minutes getting through security, getting to the gate 5 minutes before they started boarding a FULL plane, there was 1 seat left!!! 

God definitely watched out for me, and knew I needed to be back with my family. It was truly a miracle.  But I made it home.  My husband is always so good to pick up all my homemaking slack. He’s faster at cleaning the house, he makes great meals, and he always dresses the kids better than I do.  He even makes them brush their hair.  So the family was just fine without me around.

Thank you to Quaker! It was the greatest weekend! I met the most fabulous people. The employees of Quaker are so passionate about Oats, and it was so fun to listen to them talk about what a wonderful company it is.