okay long awaited.....
I am bored, the fourth was a blast, the fireworks at the lake were amazing, I still had a longing for an Army Celebration, maybe next year, Dan is home safe and sound, all the kids have their fingers and toes, I start new Chili's tomorrow, lots of shifts scheduled, but other than that it should be okay, way closer to home, and a few cool people. That was a long ass run-on sentence.
Okay so I was supposed to send an e-mail about Chi-town, so I figure I would post instead. Chicago, things to do, check out boys town! It is the gay Mecca of Chicago, lots of cool bars (Spin, Charlies, etc), some shopping and some eaters You will wanna take the red line north to the Belmont or Addison Exit (I recommend Belmont) then you take a right off of the "L" and follow it to Halstead (3 blocks).
Food:
Ed Debevik's: not sure the exact location but you can type it in an find it,
Exchequer: pizza great food, south on Wabash, between congress and van burean, if I remember correctly it is right off the "L" loop and the orange and purple lines have a stop almost directly in front of the restaurant.
Potbelly sandwiches: a great sandwich shop, they are a chain, you can find them all over.
Shaws: a seafood place, a little on the high-end, but the clam chowder is worth the price.
Portello's: an Italian beef place, not bad, but definitely a touristy place, I would recommend Jay's: I am not sure where they are located, but there are only about three of them and mostly up north around O'Hare sub-burbs.
Things to-do:
Hit Navy Pier, it's free to roam around and full of touristy things to do. If you want to go up the Sear's tower....don't, I mean you can, but a much better view comes from the Handcock center. If you plan on doing touristy things check out the tourist pass, you get admission to like five of Chicago's greats for $50 or something like that. Check out a cubby's game, you can get a good ticket for like $30, but it is mostly an ambiance thing (you can also take the redline all the way north to Wrigley). Grant park, definitely a place to wander around. There are always cultural fair and food happenings in the great city of Chicago, that will be cheap and fun. My best advice, Chicago has a tourist pass for all CTA lines, it basically is a five day pass for all buses and "L" lines for $18, so basically you take the "L" or bus five times in five days and it pays for itself.
Anyway I hope that helps, and you enjoy Chicago!
Okay so I was supposed to send an e-mail about Chi-town, so I figure I would post instead. Chicago, things to do, check out boys town! It is the gay Mecca of Chicago, lots of cool bars (Spin, Charlies, etc), some shopping and some eaters You will wanna take the red line north to the Belmont or Addison Exit (I recommend Belmont) then you take a right off of the "L" and follow it to Halstead (3 blocks).
Food:
Ed Debevik's: not sure the exact location but you can type it in an find it,
Exchequer: pizza great food, south on Wabash, between congress and van burean, if I remember correctly it is right off the "L" loop and the orange and purple lines have a stop almost directly in front of the restaurant.
Potbelly sandwiches: a great sandwich shop, they are a chain, you can find them all over.
Shaws: a seafood place, a little on the high-end, but the clam chowder is worth the price.
Portello's: an Italian beef place, not bad, but definitely a touristy place, I would recommend Jay's: I am not sure where they are located, but there are only about three of them and mostly up north around O'Hare sub-burbs.
Things to-do:
Hit Navy Pier, it's free to roam around and full of touristy things to do. If you want to go up the Sear's tower....don't, I mean you can, but a much better view comes from the Handcock center. If you plan on doing touristy things check out the tourist pass, you get admission to like five of Chicago's greats for $50 or something like that. Check out a cubby's game, you can get a good ticket for like $30, but it is mostly an ambiance thing (you can also take the redline all the way north to Wrigley). Grant park, definitely a place to wander around. There are always cultural fair and food happenings in the great city of Chicago, that will be cheap and fun. My best advice, Chicago has a tourist pass for all CTA lines, it basically is a five day pass for all buses and "L" lines for $18, so basically you take the "L" or bus five times in five days and it pays for itself.
Anyway I hope that helps, and you enjoy Chicago!
posted by T at 3:02 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Terri!
Thanks for all that - I figured you'd forgotten by now. I'm getting really excited about going to Chicago although I'm going to have to work on my fear of heights and crowds! Dan has promised to hold my hand when we are up really high so hopefully that will help. Although I think the words Dan and helpful are not usually synonymous..... (/me ducks)
I hope your new job goes well. I've just started a new job as well. I moved from Belgium to Falmouth, Cornwall in South West England and although I'm only here a week I'm really chilling out. Its by the sea which I love. The cool thing about summer here is that there are lots of surfing dudes etc... its a bit of a last bastion for bohemians down all year round here as its miles away from anywhere.
I know Dan is planning to visit me at some point so if you'd like to come with him then you'd be more than welcome.
Oh and by the way - here's one for Kiki... I only remembered it recently but when I was flying from Eindhoven airport (Netherlands) to London Stansted airport some months ago the identity of the airplane was EI-DAX. I thought you might find that a bit cool.
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