Shake it up baby, now.
What a great weekend. Details will follow when I have more time (crazy week, which is now reduced to just three days) but suffice to say I had a great time getting away and exploring Chi-town with dear friends. I’d never been before, and we had a lot of fun. (Despite the blisteringly hot weather, for which we did not pack appropriately.)
Highlights included (aside from exploring the city, its architecture, and its art):
*good food, wine, and conversation at Quartino (a.k.a. Mario Batali light)
*a $1000 meal at one of the city’s best restaurants (I really am poor, I swear!)
*super buttery, greasy, yummy popcorn
*seeing and catching up with an old friend and his new girlfriend
*Chicago-style pizza
*Chicago-style hot dogs (I know I don’t usually eat meat, but an exception was made... When in Rome, you know?)
*meeting and hanging out with this blogger, and embarking on a night-long impromptu bar crawl, which brought us here, here, here, here (where some karaoke was performed), and here (where some sleazy dancing was engaged in); and then running into him randomly on the subway the next morning. he’s even more fun than I expected him to be, and he is now required to move to NYC pronto
*bizarre altercation with pedi-cab driver outside one of the bars
*talking to this other blogger via cell phone while hanging out with his bloodiness
*awesome sex (sorry, just had to throw that one in there)
As I said, more details to follow (not about the sex, though). But damn, looking over that list, it’s abundantly clear how much I like to eat and drink. Whew. Excuse me while I go for a run.
Highlights included (aside from exploring the city, its architecture, and its art):
*good food, wine, and conversation at Quartino (a.k.a. Mario Batali light)
*a $1000 meal at one of the city’s best restaurants (I really am poor, I swear!)
*super buttery, greasy, yummy popcorn
*seeing and catching up with an old friend and his new girlfriend
*Chicago-style pizza
*Chicago-style hot dogs (I know I don’t usually eat meat, but an exception was made... When in Rome, you know?)
*meeting and hanging out with this blogger, and embarking on a night-long impromptu bar crawl, which brought us here, here, here, here (where some karaoke was performed), and here (where some sleazy dancing was engaged in); and then running into him randomly on the subway the next morning. he’s even more fun than I expected him to be, and he is now required to move to NYC pronto
*bizarre altercation with pedi-cab driver outside one of the bars
*talking to this other blogger via cell phone while hanging out with his bloodiness
*awesome sex (sorry, just had to throw that one in there)
As I said, more details to follow (not about the sex, though). But damn, looking over that list, it’s abundantly clear how much I like to eat and drink. Whew. Excuse me while I go for a run.
posted by P/O at 5/31/2006 11:01:00 AM
5 Comments:
It was a lot of fun hanging out with you guys. When time and money allow, I'd love to make a trek east. I've only lived here for three and a half days, so give me some time before I'm required to move again.
And they're called pedi-cabs? I still like to think of them as rickshaws. That driver was weird and not just because he didn't like the Blood Ray.
well glad to see you had fun... It's geat to get out and explore the areas you usually overlook. =)
A $1,000.00 meal?
Jeez.
If I had known this I would have visited with you sooner...
;)
It was great to finally talk to you -- and I was dead serious about some sort of summit meeting in Chicago, where we discuss important world issues such as "How much vodka can we ingest before we turn into potatoes?"
Hey! Have a great weekend!
From $1,000 meal to a coupla hot dogs?
A well rounded blogger, you are...
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