I recruited my friend Kyle for weekend outside of the mitten and we headed out on Friday afternoon. After 5 hours in the car filled with lots of talking (me) and a lot of head nods and "I understands" (Kyle) we made it to Chitown. I dropped Kyle off to play with another friend of ours on Friday night and headed to meet up with my sister and brother-in-law. We went to dinner at a Turkish restaurant called Efes (formally Cousins) which was quite delicious. The restaurant was also BYOB so we made it somewhat of a theme evening by purchasing a bottle of Mediterranean Red from World Market across the street. The bottle (picked by me purely based on the name and pretty label) was $4.99 and proof that you don't have to pay a lot for a good bottle of wine. In case you're curious, here is a link to the wine.
http://www.snooth.com/wine/rene-barbier-catalunya-mediterranean-red-nv/A friend of J.B.'s also joined us for dinner. He was HILARIOUS! And was actually person who introduced me to my new favorite song, Starstruck by Lady Gaga. If she goes on tour anytime soon, you know I'm in. She has yet to sing a song I don't like.
We returned home after dinner and decided to make a batch of chocolate chip cookies. Unfortunately, when Damla said she had all the ingredients, she meant she had all she had all the ingredients except for baking soda which must be what makes cookies fluffy b/c we ended up with some pretty flat cookies.
Saturday morning I woke up and headed over to Stacey and Colleen's apartment to meet up with them as well as Kamm and Kylie who also made the trip for the weekend. From there we headed's downtown to Laurent's house where she was hosing a little St. Patty's party. Praz, Julie, Kyle and Thomas all met up with us there. The morning flew by which is not suprising. It was packed full of lots of food, Catch Phrase, bags, playing outside on the patio, and even a little physics lesson about torpedos from Colleen.
We eventually decided to venture into the city and headed up to Wrigleyville. We started off at a bar called Rebel where Jess and Brian were hanging out . We stayed there until we were hungry and then headed to Chen's which was a delicious restaurant. I ordered sushi since Lent is still going on and I gave up Chinese food but it was still really good. After that, the group dwindled down to just me, Kamm, Colleen, Stacey, and Kyle but it was too early to go home so we decided to wander in and out of random establishments in the general directon of the apartment. We drank some Beamish which tasted like dishwasher liquid at the Underground Lounge, made negative friends with some Illinios University people at Blarney Stone, and then ran (literally) to Kirkwoods to show off our killer dance moves. All in all, a most enjoyable day.
Sunday morning we continued the tradition of eating bagels for breakfast and headed to Einstein. I couldn't believe how many people were still continuing their celebrations! Afterwards, we went back to the apartment for some Swedish Fish and lots of giggling. A great way to end any weekend. Then Kyle and I headed back into the car for the trip home. This time we tried to pass some of the time with some car games but in the end went back to more talking and a few "I understands".Now it's back to work for a few days. Still no luck on the jury duty. It's really a shame. I would have made such a great juror.
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