chicago round 2

I took my b-day off for friday the 13th, and brewed up a batch of Scotch Guard Bomb Ale with my new burner - so much quicker. Later that night, Steph took me out to the Melting Pot for a killer five course fondue dinner amidst the craziness of the last night of the Downtown Louisville summer street fairs.

The next morning we carpooled to the airport with Greg. We had different flights but they left around the same time. After landing at O'Hare and taking the blue line most of the way into town we switched over to the red line at Monroe, right after some crazy assault just happened on the train and they were detaining the suspect. Randomly enough, Greg also happened to be on this train on his way from Midway - wacky! After setting into our hotey (the haunted Tremont), we met up at Gino's East for some deep dish dinner. Later that night we met up with everyone at Sushi Sambi for drinks and general merriment.

A big air show was going on all weekend, so when we were out and about the next morning we heard a lot of planes passing overhead. After a morning shopping (mostly at H&M since we don't have one out here), we broke for lunch at the little cafe under the John Hancock. When it was time to go, we cabbed it over to the venue, which was a really cool spot called the Leaf. After some apps, it was speech time and I was up first since I was Jacq's maid of honor - hahaha! Next up was the slow dance and then dinner with a great spread of food.



Then it was time to get the dance party started upstairs. The dj ladies had us going and even let me sing doom metal sweet child o' mine!



We danced until closing, then cabbed back to our respective hoteys. Earlier in the evening I hurled for some reason, so by now I was starving. The only places open were some 24 hour italian delivery joints - quite possibly the worst food I've ever eaten. Flew home monday and vegged out.