Chicago Weekend

This weekend was my memorable weekend getaway with Tim. I was a bit nervous at first to spend so much time with Tim, but the whole weekend ended up being better than I could have ever imagined!

We had to get up at 4:30AM to make the train by 6AM in Toledo -- The ride to Chicago was slow and boring and Tim and I took turns sleeping to make sure that neither of us snored while we were sleeping (ha!). We ate some breakfest on the train, read a little, and just chat chitted (yeah, I flipped that shit).

Once we got in Chicago everyone was freaking out because of luggage and where to go, but Tim and I being the cool, laid back folks we are, took our time and eventually got our luggage 45 minutes later. We hopped in a cab and took it to an amazing hotel, The Hotel Blake. Once we got settled in we booked our way over to "Edwardo's," this great pizza place and chowed down one some delicious pizza and booze.

Since the train had taken longer than expected to get to Chicago we could go to any museums on Saturday so we looked for some hole in the wall pubs to get our drink on and we ended up at Buddy Guy's Legends Bar. It was a pretty awesome bar and we ended up making friends with two older couples who let us sit with them, bought us some shots, and played pool with us. They were some pretty cool hippy folks.

We didn't make it too long and end up back in the hotel around 10PM after a crazy cab driver took us all over town when we only needed to got 5 blocks away from the bar to get back to our hotel.

Tim and I woke up early on Sunday (around 7AM) and got ready for the day. We went down to Lake Michigan and walked around for a bit, ate at Bennigan's for breakfest (for the sole reason that Dane Cook mentioned it in a joke that we love), and proceeded our way across the street to the Art Museum for a Vollard exibit. It was a pretty amazing exibit and I could tell Tim was really enjoying his time there... I would have much rather spent my afternoon in a history museum, but he really wanted to see this exibit so we went!

After the museum we headed across town to the Hard Rock Cafe to meet an old friend, Chuck, there. Unfortunately, he couldn't make it because of a "mishap" (aka he got sick on himself) he had on his train ride into the city, so Tim and I enjoyed a sampler, a couple brews, a couple shots, and just some good laughs until we had to head back to the hotel (and I swear there were no magnets there, mom!).

After Hard Rock we headed across the street to this Irish pub where I fell in love with all of the bartenders because they spoke in Irish accents. Tim wasn't too excited about that, but I was definitely interested in hearing whatever they had to say when they spoke to us. After the pub we walked around the city and went to these two hole in the wall book and music stores.

And that was that. We got back on the train to Toledo and slept the whole way here. Best weekend of my life. Hands down.