Monday! Chicago style!
Monday.
Went to bed too late, so when the alarm went off at 9am I grunted “shut it off”…we then slept till like 1pm!!!! We hit the Field Museum today, which was fun and comfortable (since I’ve been there 3 times now) and irritating! We bought “city passes” which let you in most museums and Hancock Building and Sears Tower…but it doesn’t let you into any special events at the museum. It would have been an additional 14 bucks to see them. Annoying. But we had an enjoyable time there before catching the train up to the Magnificent Mile for booze and Spinach Artichoke Waffle Fries. Our waitress was from Flint, Michigan! Small world. Much goodness for 7 bucks! I got MLW buzzed up pretty good for our time at the Hancock Building. 40 seconds to go 94 stories, ears popped a plenty. Took 3 photos and batteries ran out on the camera. Damn. We got some good “setting sun” pictures along with a few more shots with MLW’s camera/phone.
Cheesecake Factory is crazy over-rated. And it’s HUGE! Holy shit that was the biggest menu, full of ads, which would make it bigger, of course. It was like 12 pages! We just got cheesecake, Key Lime cheesecake was awesome, and I still have half of it to eat for breakfast! I earlier made fun of Asian tourists. Well, we’re at the Cheesecake Factory and two nice Asian ladies sit down. They brought their own Pellegrino sparkling water and a fucking pizza box. They then proceeded to ask for a couple of glasses and poured their own water into the glass and ate the pizza out of the box. Horrible.
We walked to the “L” station and headed back, and then I finally embarrassed myself by losing my sense of direction. We got onto one train heading back towards our hotel, had to make an exchange, but had to walk 2 blocks to the next station. I thought we were going North/South….nope East/West. So we ended up on the wrong platform and I was trying to convince a couple of drunken morons that they were headed the wrong direction to get to Wrigleyville. Drunken morons knew more than me at that point. I realized that we were going away from the hotel (though still in the loop) so we just took a cap. MLW called it when she said “we’re probably only 2 blocks away”…nope, we were 5 blocks away. Kevin=fail.
