Last weekend, a group of the co-workers and I made our way to Chicago to visit StrongBadAddict.
The car portions of the trip were uneventful, but amusing nonetheless: our Favorite Garbage Disposal fought for control of a certain Charlie's Angel's drink. Probably the most amusing gambits Favorite Garbage Disposal tried was using his hand as a cup holder under a blanket and screaming about pink elephants outside. The funniest thing about the whole situation was that Charlie's Angel was initially creeped out because she thought Favorite Garbage Disposal was trying to put the moves on her.
The culinary portions of the trip were quite excellent: dinner Friday at El Nuevo Mexicano, lunch Saturday at Sayat-Nova (an Armenian restaurant) and dinner Saturday at Nancy's Original Stuffed Pizza (the original that spawned many other locations including the one on Lake St. in Aurora).
(On a side note, Salamander Lady was able to join us for dinner Friday and got to meet the from work posse. She and I pretended to have a professional arrangement where we acted as each other's "friend" so we didn't look like total losers when we brought other friends into distant towns. Also, people tried to get us drunk so we'd spill the dirt on each other, but that plan failed thanks to the overwhelming power of our poor memories. Victory! =)
The entertainment portion of our trip included shopping on the Magnificent Mile. Thankfully, last weekend Chicago had the best weather I've experienced in a long time: low to mid 80's, clear, sunny and little to no humidity. This made going about on foot and on the El that much easier. We also watched The Matrix Reloaded at the IMax - good but a bit overwhelming IMax'd - and barhopping on Division Street.
The one and only down note of the weekend was that I drank a *wee* bit too much Saturday so a good deal of Sunday was spent teetering between "Am I hungry? Or do I want to hurl?"
By the time to depart rolled around, we were all tired out, but reluctant to go. StrongBadAddict and his wife were great hosts (Thanks for having us!) and a good time was had by all.
