Monday we got there and checked into our 4 1/2 star hotel on Michigan Ave. Pretty much the best hotel I've ever stayed at in Chicago. I really miss the Cass Hotel. The Cass is still there but when it had its "multi-million dollar renovation" it quadrupled the price to help pay for those renovations. They priced themselves out of my business. Anyway, our hotel was really nice and they even had complementary robes for us to use or buy for $60 (i think). When Zeth and I were headed to dinner that night the elevator doors opened and there was a man who was at least 70 standing in the elevator wearing nothing but the robe and slippers. It took everything I had to not laugh in his face. I would have given anything to have Jenny there with me. I just got in and looked down so he couldn't see me laughing silently at him. Zeth said everytime he looked over at the guy all he could see was tufts of grey chest hair sticking out of the robe. It was entertaining yet uncomfortable.
We walked up and down Michigan Ave for a while then headed back to the room to get ready for the night. Jenny was going to spend time with a friend who lives in Chicago. Zeth and I decided to go to Harry Caray's Steakhouse. I love it there. Really yummy food. Our bill ended up being $96 for the 2 of us to eat. Zeth is so expensive. When I saw the bill I said Holy Cow.
Here are pictures of Harry's Glasses and the Bartman Ball. If you don't know what the Bartman ball is let me know and I'll tell you.
After dinner we met up with Jenny at Navy Pier. (I saw Henry Blanco there with his family). It's kind of a tradition that we go there at least one night we are in Chicago. I have to take my picture of the skyline.
We went back to the hotel and got a good nights rest.
The next morning Jenny and I went down to Millenium Park to see the fun stuff down there. Zeth doesn't appreciate the art in the park so we left him back at the hotel. Jenny had never experienced the Bean before. I love the bean. It's hours of fun. Here are a few pictures of us having fun at the bean.
This one is for all of you Adventures in Babysitting fans out there. If you have never seen this 80's blockbuster then you are missing out. I love that movie and this building is my favorite building in chicago because it was featured in that movie. Jenny is hugging the building because AIB is where it's at, yo!!!
After the fun at the Bean we went to see the 2 towers where the faces appear and spit water. I've been to the park about 5 times and this feature has never been working until now. It was fun.
After all of that we walked down to Buckingham Fountain only to find out it wasn't working because they were doing work on it. Buckingham Fountain was the one that was in the intro to Married with Children. It was soooo hot that day. We did all of this stuff before noon and we were sweating so bad. We made our way back to the hotel to cool down before we headed up towards Wrigley.
While in the 54 degree hotel room Jenny found something in the bathroom. Read the box to see what it is. Read the French version.
It's a BONNET DE DOUCHE and here is Jenny sporting said Douche.
Here are a few pictures of us being stupid in the hotel room.
We hung out in the hotel for a while to cool down then decided to head up to Wrigleyville. We hopped on the El and got off at Belmont so we could do some shopping in that area and make our way to Wrigley. Zeth doesn't really like that area either but he dealt with it. We had a good time and he didn't even complain. I was proud of him. We made our way up Clark to the ballpark.
We shopped around there for a bit at all of the Cubs shops. Jenny bought a bunch of shirts. She bought one that said "I want to get to 2nd Base with Mark DeRosa". That is super fun. I wanted Zeth to get one that said "You can't QUIET THE-RIOT". He didn't want to get that one. I bought one that says "Hey Chicago What do ya say? The cubs are gonna win today" with the cubbie bear on it. We heard that you need to get in line for the bleacher seats 3-4 hours before gametime to get a good seat. We walked by about 4 hours before game time and there were quite a few people already in line.
We decided against getting in line at that time. We ended up eating a late lunch at Harry Caray's Tavern. Here are a few pictures from that.
After that we went and stood in line for the game. The gates opened at 5:00. The game started at 7:05. We got in line at about 4:15 so we didn't have to wait long.
I'm going to stop there and write all about the game in the next blog.
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2 comments:
Sounds like a good time!! Tell Zeth "Hello" for us!
I am so glad that you reminded me on myspace...I forgot you had this place. The really GREAT thing was that I also got to read about the elephant. I seen something about it and then could not find it again. I am really glad they got the elephant some help. A life on heroin must be terrible. I am worried that he will find some loco weed growing in the wild. I certainly hope he has a sponsor. Oh and I did get to see the pic of our corndogs. They looked yummy. And thank you so much of the biggest animals...I didn't have to miss the fair!!! I have now saved your new blog sp[ot in my favs so I can come visit often ha ha love ya
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