I Left My Heart in Chi-town

I've always loved Chicago. I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad time there and last weekend was no exception. We have several college friends that live in Chi-town and we decided to take a weekend to visit them. So we headed out Friday afternoon to Naperville, Illinois! Lucky for us, our friends, Bartels and Bill, had graciously agreed to let us crash at their place (thanks guys!!!).

The Three Stooges

Friday night we went out to a bar and caught up with some other good friends, Tai and Alyssa. It was great to see them and Alyssa looks so cute being pregnant! :) Following up the bar time was Wii time! We bowled like pros! Well at least I did. Kara didn’t do too hot, but she’s new so I guess I’ll give her that. I don’t know why I don’t have any pictures from Friday night (damn it!) but we had a great time!

Saturday we woke up bright and early to head out to Wrigley for the noon game. Our plan was to take the 9:20 am train into the city, catch a cab and be at the stadium by about 10:45. The plan didn’t exactly work out quite that well though.

Todd & Wade had to "scissor" on the train... I think they secretly liked it. :)

Our train broke down at the stop just before ours (unfortunately for my parents who were also in town and had gotten on that train and were stuck for over an hour!). So we jumped on a different train and didn’t get to the stadium until the first pitch was thrown! We were in a huge rush to say the least since our friend Paul and his girlfriend Holly were waiting for us and we had bleacher seats so we were pretty much screwed in where we’d be able to sit. Thanks to a few other fellow bloggers, Doni, Phampants and Mawls, Wade and I had the opportunity to sit centerfield for the first 3 innings. Thanks guys! It was great to get to see/meet you all! (And thanks Doni for this great pic!) After that we joined up with the friends we came with for the rest of the game. Thanks to Wrigley for the tasty slushy lemonade vodkas and beers I was feeling REALLY happy after the game. In fact, I couldn’t even tell you the score. I just knew that the CUBBIES WON!!!

Mawls, Me, Doni & Pham @ the game

We headed south on Sheffield to a bar for some more drinks and eats, which was a necessity at this point since I was pretty toasty.

After some fried mac and cheese bites and a chicken quesadilla we headed down to Taste of Lincoln to see one of our favorite bands from college, Hello Dave. They are great. Nuf said. I danced like I should have been in special ed classes all through life and had an utter and unbelievable blast! It definitely helps when you are surrounded by fun friends and I’ve got to say we have some of the BEST! I even purposefully spilled beer down Paul’s shirt so that he could get in on the “spilled drink” look that Bartels and Gossen were so nicely sporting.

Bill was being a wuss b/c he was hungover so I took a picture of him drinking "girly" drinks and holdin my purse. :)
Chicago PBR! Nothing but the BEST!

Me & my main squeeze

The "spilled" beer picture

Rock stars!

We love Hello Dave!

The groupies

Thanks guys for making our weekend in Chicago so much stinking fun! You guys rock the cashba. Hope to see you guys REAL soon!