31 posts tagged “chicago”
I must say, I've had a rockin' good Memorial Day weekend. Friday, went to see RedWantingBlue again. Saturday, I spent the whole day with a friend (Melissa) I hadn't seen in a while ... we went bike shopping, took a walk by the lake, went to lunch, got ice cream, cat-sat, and even went grocery shopping. On Sunday, my friend Whitney drove in from Michigan, and we went to Melissa's and cooked on the grill. Then today, Whitney and I went downtown, and then met up with Rob on North Avenue Beach to see the band Catfight. All in all, it was a very fun (and relaxing) weekend!
I've known Whitney for over 25 years ... longer than I've known my own sister. She's moving to Los Angeles in a week (for work), so I won't get to see her as often anymore. I'm glad she could make it for the weekend.
Sunday was nice outside, so my friend Justin and I went downtown to see Forgetting Sarah Marshall (pretty funny). Afterwards, we went to the Lego store in the Nordstrom Mall to wait for Rob.
I would venture to say that everyone living with Chicago has a picture of Cloud Gate, aka "The Bean." Here are some pics I took when we were downtown the other weekend.
After our visit to the Art Institute, we stopped by Millennium Park to check out "Paintings Below Zero."
I've lived in Chicago almost 7 years now, and I'd never been to The Taste of Chicago. The idea of eating overpriced food whilst fighting my way through a sweaty crowd of mostly-suburbanites (people who actually live in the city are scared of The Taste) has never appealed to me in the slightest.
But then I found out my favorite band, The Black Crowes, were giving a free concert at The Taste on 7.6.07. So, I went. While it was hard to see anything from the lawn, I'm still glad I went. The Crowes sound just as good live as they do on recordings. And who can complain about a free show given by their favorite band? Not me.
The last two pictures I snapped while we were walking to the bus stop. The middle one is "Cloud Gate" or as Chicagoans call it, "The Bean." The last is a bad, blurry picture of the Smurfit-Stone building.
But then I found out my favorite band, The Black Crowes, were giving a free concert at The Taste on 7.6.07. So, I went. While it was hard to see anything from the lawn, I'm still glad I went. The Crowes sound just as good live as they do on recordings. And who can complain about a free show given by their favorite band? Not me.
The last two pictures I snapped while we were walking to the bus stop. The middle one is "Cloud Gate" or as Chicagoans call it, "The Bean." The last is a bad, blurry picture of the Smurfit-Stone building.
Rob's sister is getting married at The Ritz in a few months, so when she and her fiance were in town last weekend, they took us upstairs to show us around. Needless to say, it's a beautiful place!
The Gay Pride Parade passes through Rob's neighborhood every year. With all of the people and cops blocking traffic, there is a risk of being trapped in, so the past two years we've left the area. This year, however, we decided to stick around.
I threatened to download the above photo as Rob's desktop image. He wasn't amused. Hehe.
Chicago, as I'm sure I mentioned, has awful weather (too hot or too cold) most of the time. However, yesterday was a rare perfect day, and I took advantage of it by walking by Lake Michigan.
Went downtown on Sunday ... and took this picture of Holy Name Cathedral, which happens to be the site of a famous gangster shoot-out back in the day. If you look to the right side of the photo, you can see a bullet hole. Ah, Chicago history ...
