Chicago.... a great place to visit!!
FRIDAY
So I had an email from a friend of mine saying that we could go to a Cubs/Cardinal game and the ticket was only $35. I immediately started planning and gathering friends to come with me. It was my brother's B-day weekend and I wanted to have a weekend up in Chicago anyway. This was just to good of an opportunity to pass-up. The whole weekend started by waking up at 5:30am (after going to sleep at 2am or so) and driving to meet some friends over in Bloomington to carpool up to Chicago. We met my brother in Skokie at the hotel we were all staying at, and taking the Red-Line down to Wrigleyville for the Pre-party at the Cubby Bear. We went straight to the bar for beers and Justin ended-up buying 3 shots…. (it was just past 11am). Don’t worry, we did make it into the game, but only after we drank the bar out of Coors and had a few more shots. The game was great, I always love seeing games live, then I do on TV. The one thing that was bad, is that we didn’t have our tickets together. We had 3 different groups of people sitting in one section.
After the game, we went back to the hotel swam and got ready to go back out to the bars in Wrigleyville. I called a few friends of mine to meet-up with them at the bar and the final decision was for John Barleycorn’s…. what a great bar!! The crowd wasn’t too good on the dance floor, but I got over it when my buddy was dance-attacked by 4 girls. The funny part is that he can’t dance… all he does it the traditional white-boy side-to-side rock. I’m glad I had Jeanine to dance with so I didn’t have to be his Wingman… I’m glad Justin stepped-up. After dancing the night away, the bar closed and we were debating on what to do. We tried to get into another bar, but the bouncer wanted $10 a person for the last hour they were open and no one wanted to pay that. We finally decided to go to the next best place…. Taco Bell. I only say it’s the next best place, because the security guard had a small army attached to his hips (2 glocks). We finally left and went home but on the way, we talked Chris into calling his girl from earlier that evening… she was very angry when she left because she didn’t even get a hug as she left. After Chris talked to her for a bit we were back on the El heading to see the girls and hang-out on the Loyola beach…. and it was about 4:30am. We ended up staying there until about 5:30am or so and we still had to get home…. and that was just Friday night.
SATURDAY
Saturday was much more relaxed, we stopped-by a friend’s condo before heading to another friend’s open house party. Perfect night to follow-up the previous night. I did end-up staying awake until 2am or so. I wasn’t really worth much on Sunday because I woke-up early (7:30am) to eat breakfast with my sister. All in all… I’d say it was a great weekend! I love my life!
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