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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
chicago
well i am back from my trip to chicago!
let's see...wednesday night, my mom and i walked up and down the gold coast and looked at townhouses and condos we'll never be able to afford. we ate at ra sushi bar (sushi was pretty good and so was the miso soup) and picked my sister up from her class at second city.
thursday, my mom and i took a trip up to north kedzie in logan square to look at apartments. we ate at lula's cafe as suggested and it was fucking delicious. we walked around logan square and found a comic book store and a cheap movie theatre. we also randomly ran into gabe and jenna, which was nice because i had already started freaking out about how huge chicago was. i think this was the only day we had 'bad' weather, otherwise it was warm and cloud-free for the entire trip.
friday, my mom and i went to bucktown to look at a way overpriced apartment in a really cool area. we ate at babylon; the prices were decent (in fact, possibly better than aladdin cafe) but the service sucked (much like aladdin cafe). i had a really good falafel sandwich but i don't know that i'll be going out of my way to eat there. we came back and walked down the 'beaches' of lake michigan and then went to the hancock observatory where i managed to have a panic attack in front of everyone. i recovered and we took a boat tour from navy pier (we ran into one of leslie's friends here) and saw a great view of chicago from the lake. we ate dinner at pj clarke's, they had the best mini-cheeseburgers EVER but it was right next to this awful douchebag bar.
sunday, i slept for most of the day and then spent some time on north avenue trying to find an ATM. i ended up eating at handlebar in wicker park. i have to say, the service was pretty awful but they made some REALLY good over easy eggs for me. i know that cooking eggs over easy is probably not that difficult but you would be surprised at how many places mess that order up. i think next time i go, i will sit on the patio because it looks beautiful. i just read a review of handlebar and i think it's hilarious because of the references to lost:
We didn't make the cut here [frowny face]...For some reason our server was just not into, eh, what's the word?... Oh yes, "serving". When it came time to pay the bill it got even worse. He straight up disappeared. I'm talking Benjamin Linus waking up in the desert type shit. For his sake, I hope our server knows how to disarm horsemen with AK-47s and I hope he made a reservation at the finest hotel in Tunis. For six years from now. ....I might come back and give it another shot sometime. But not with Hurley. He'd be so pissed!
when i got back gabe informed me that henry rollins bought a record from him off of ebay. i thought about the kjhk bathroom for a minute. then i got a taxi to take me to a property management office where i dropped off an application for the apartment i cannot talk about and we passed by a puerto rican music festival. i took the blue line to o'hare (which is super easy by the way) and then took almost an hour to get from the train all the way through security because all of the jerks in the world apparently work at o'hare.
(jenna's cats, they are so cute)
let's see...wednesday night, my mom and i walked up and down the gold coast and looked at townhouses and condos we'll never be able to afford. we ate at ra sushi bar (sushi was pretty good and so was the miso soup) and picked my sister up from her class at second city.
thursday, my mom and i took a trip up to north kedzie in logan square to look at apartments. we ate at lula's cafe as suggested and it was fucking delicious. we walked around logan square and found a comic book store and a cheap movie theatre. we also randomly ran into gabe and jenna, which was nice because i had already started freaking out about how huge chicago was. i think this was the only day we had 'bad' weather, otherwise it was warm and cloud-free for the entire trip.
friday, my mom and i went to bucktown to look at a way overpriced apartment in a really cool area. we ate at babylon; the prices were decent (in fact, possibly better than aladdin cafe) but the service sucked (much like aladdin cafe). i had a really good falafel sandwich but i don't know that i'll be going out of my way to eat there. we came back and walked down the 'beaches' of lake michigan and then went to the hancock observatory where i managed to have a panic attack in front of everyone. i recovered and we took a boat tour from navy pier (we ran into one of leslie's friends here) and saw a great view of chicago from the lake. we ate dinner at pj clarke's, they had the best mini-cheeseburgers EVER but it was right next to this awful douchebag bar.
saturday morning, my sister and mom flew out. i took a bus to the shedd aquarium (it took over an hour to get there) and once i got there, the wait was 1.5 hours to get in. i didn't want to ruin my impression of shedd aquarium so i walked along a harbour and then crossed over to the art institute. on the way, i stopped by the chicago jazz festival. the art institute wasn't very crowded, i found out later that most of the impressionist art was actually on tour in texas, but i got to enjoy the asian and african art exhibits. i walked over to the blick art supply store in downtown and spent an hour looking at art supplies. then i took the train up to california and saw the most amazing apartment ever. i won't talk about it anymore because i don't want to jinx myself, but let's just say i REALLY want this apartment. i went back downtown and got my luggage, then headed back up the blue line to gabe and jenna's apartment. we stopped first at a noodle place (i can't remember the name) where jenna works and i ate some REALLY good pad thai.
sunday, i slept for most of the day and then spent some time on north avenue trying to find an ATM. i ended up eating at handlebar in wicker park. i have to say, the service was pretty awful but they made some REALLY good over easy eggs for me. i know that cooking eggs over easy is probably not that difficult but you would be surprised at how many places mess that order up. i think next time i go, i will sit on the patio because it looks beautiful. i just read a review of handlebar and i think it's hilarious because of the references to lost:
We didn't make the cut here [frowny face]...For some reason our server was just not into, eh, what's the word?... Oh yes, "serving". When it came time to pay the bill it got even worse. He straight up disappeared. I'm talking Benjamin Linus waking up in the desert type shit. For his sake, I hope our server knows how to disarm horsemen with AK-47s and I hope he made a reservation at the finest hotel in Tunis. For six years from now. ....I might come back and give it another shot sometime. But not with Hurley. He'd be so pissed!
when i got back gabe informed me that henry rollins bought a record from him off of ebay. i thought about the kjhk bathroom for a minute. then i got a taxi to take me to a property management office where i dropped off an application for the apartment i cannot talk about and we passed by a puerto rican music festival. i took the blue line to o'hare (which is super easy by the way) and then took almost an hour to get from the train all the way through security because all of the jerks in the world apparently work at o'hare.
(jenna's cats, they are so cute)
i think that's pretty much it. i had a GREAT time even though i was sick for a lot of my trip. i was really overwhelmed at first but overall i feel comfortable in chicago and i cannot wait to move.
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