Headed home to Springfield Friday night, and dressed up for Halloween Saturday night. Although unplanned, Hope's costume went perfectly with mine!
Went out with the rest of the gang! Alex and Megan went as... I forget. Some sassy characters from Greece, I think. Nicole was a ladybug and Missy was an alien. :) At midnight we went to the Rocky Horror Picture Show, live at the Hoogland! It was great!
Aaaaaaaand then a week passed. That week was filled to the brim with activites such as clay class and going to Rocky Horror (again) with everyone from work. That was slightly awkward. Haha. Thhhhhen on Friday we took off work and went to Chicago! It was awesome! After braving all the traffic we headed straight to get some pretzel bread, or bretzel, sandwiches at Hahhah's Bretzels. Possibly the most delicious sandwich I've ever had. Mine had marinated portabellas and red peppers, goat cheese, arugula, and rosemary infused asparagus. Dee-lic-ious! I'm not sure what was on Amanda's, but you can see she's enjoing it!
We got to go to a Ben Folds concert unexpectedly with Maria. Look, I am so close his sweat is almost getting on me and I could see his little sneakers. Gross. It was good times, although I haven't listen to Ben Folds since high school, so I only knew 2 songs.
After a night of celebrating and zipping around on the L, we got up the next morning to enjoy some fabulous weather and some Whole Foods. This Whole Foods on N. Halsted is phenomenal. We had some gelato and perused allllll of the merchandise. Cheeses and olives galore. There were even a bunch of little baby octopi. I couldn't look away from their minute tentacles. Amazingly, I excited the store having bought only some gelato and shampoo... (I sadly left the giant wheel of parmesan cheese behind...)
Met up with Maria and Jenni at the Chicago Diner, a fine vegtarian establishment. I had been waiting to go there for weeks!!! Our lunch was wonderful, and the clear winner was, surprisingly, those little brown strips- which were the best "chicken wings" I've ever tasted. Try them. Immediately.
Sooooo we were going to go to the Second City, but they were sold out. Amanda and I compensated by getting deep dish pizza at Giordano's and then going out for fancy cocktails at the Gage, pinkies held high all night. You know, because we're swanky and stuff.
OMGGGGGGGGG! The next morning we walked to the Field Museum and nerded out for hours!! We still only got to see a small portion of the ehxibits we wanted to check out. Oh well, I guess we'll have to plan another vacation!
Aaaaaaaand then a week passed. That week was filled to the brim with activites such as clay class and going to Rocky Horror (again) with everyone from work. That was slightly awkward. Haha. Thhhhhen on Friday we took off work and went to Chicago! It was awesome! After braving all the traffic we headed straight to get some pretzel bread, or bretzel, sandwiches at Hahhah's Bretzels. Possibly the most delicious sandwich I've ever had. Mine had marinated portabellas and red peppers, goat cheese, arugula, and rosemary infused asparagus. Dee-lic-ious! I'm not sure what was on Amanda's, but you can see she's enjoing it!
We got to go to a Ben Folds concert unexpectedly with Maria. Look, I am so close his sweat is almost getting on me and I could see his little sneakers. Gross. It was good times, although I haven't listen to Ben Folds since high school, so I only knew 2 songs.
After a night of celebrating and zipping around on the L, we got up the next morning to enjoy some fabulous weather and some Whole Foods. This Whole Foods on N. Halsted is phenomenal. We had some gelato and perused allllll of the merchandise. Cheeses and olives galore. There were even a bunch of little baby octopi. I couldn't look away from their minute tentacles. Amazingly, I excited the store having bought only some gelato and shampoo... (I sadly left the giant wheel of parmesan cheese behind...)
Met up with Maria and Jenni at the Chicago Diner, a fine vegtarian establishment. I had been waiting to go there for weeks!!! Our lunch was wonderful, and the clear winner was, surprisingly, those little brown strips- which were the best "chicken wings" I've ever tasted. Try them. Immediately.
Sooooo we were going to go to the Second City, but they were sold out. Amanda and I compensated by getting deep dish pizza at Giordano's and then going out for fancy cocktails at the Gage, pinkies held high all night. You know, because we're swanky and stuff.
OMGGGGGGGGG! The next morning we walked to the Field Museum and nerded out for hours!! We still only got to see a small portion of the ehxibits we wanted to check out. Oh well, I guess we'll have to plan another vacation!
At the Nature Center we do a skit for the students where Amanda and I just went back in time in our time machine... and we found backgrounds of both of the time periods we go to! Picture time!! Here's me swimming in the Ordovician Sea. (Or Silurian, close enough.) I mostly just cared that I was swimming next to a giant trilobite, the Ohio state fossil. Woo!
Soooo cold during the ice age! Mammoths and saber tooths and sloths, oh my!
Oh heeeeey Charles Darwin. According to the chocolate festival we went to a few months ago, you're in hell. For using the e-word.
We went to the most amazing tapas restaurant- Ba Ba Reeba! We stuffed ourselves silly and proceeded to drive back to Ohio. Certainly one of the best weekends ever.
Soooo cold during the ice age! Mammoths and saber tooths and sloths, oh my!
Oh heeeeey Charles Darwin. According to the chocolate festival we went to a few months ago, you're in hell. For using the e-word.
We went to the most amazing tapas restaurant- Ba Ba Reeba! We stuffed ourselves silly and proceeded to drive back to Ohio. Certainly one of the best weekends ever.
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