This past weekend, we got together in the Windy City... and we managed to fit in quite a bit of fun stuff! Friday afternoon, I met up with Crystal at Union Station (she took the Amtrak up from St. Louis). On a side note, lots of interesting people watching can be done in the Amtrak waiting room. Crystal's train was a half-hour behind schedule, but I had plenty of entertainment around me to pass the time.
Since it was sooooo nice on Friday, Crystal and I grabbed a quick lunch at Cafe Baci and sat outside enjoying the weather. After lunch, we headed out to Midway to pick JJ up. We made it back to town and to the nail place right on time. After our relaxing mani/pedis, we stopped off at Matt's place to get fixed up for the night.
We were in the mood for Greek food, so we walked down to Athena and ate outside in their garden area.
Great food and wine... Crystal kept saying how much she loved the wine, so I took a pic so we could remember what it was called! We went through two bottles of wine and caught up with what's been going on in our lives.
After dinner, we went to see Wicked... such a great show!
On Saturday, we had a quick breakfast and then headed over to the Wrigley area. We were mainly trying to find a Cubs shirt for Crystal's sister, but decided to buy a few tickets and go into the game. My brother and sister were already at the game because my brother got 3 tickets from work... so we had one extra from him and bought two more. It worked out really well, because the tickets we bought off the street were only two sections away from Brett's tickets... we could see each other. We were in the shade so it was chilly, but still super sunny and beautiful outside.
We were sitting right by the press boxes, so we got a close-up of Lance Briggs singing the 7th inning stretch... but he barely sang and kept holding the mic out for the crowd to sing. Interesting.
After the game, we went out for dinner at Garcia's in Lincoln Square. I must say that place gives you a ton of food and the prices are really decent. You also get quite a bit to drink... we ordered a pitcher of margaritas and they brought us a pitcher plus three full glasses to start with. Needless to say, we were all feeling a little happy after dinner! So, what do three drunk girls do after a bunch of margaritas... karaoke battle! : ) We busted out the PS2 at Erin's place and the karaoke games and sang and sang and sang... it was a ton of fun.
Once we were all hoarse from singing (and the rain had let up just a little), we caught a cab and went to the Mayfest to see Sixteen Candles band play. We were soaked from walking in the rain and waiting in the beer line (which later we realized that beer was being sold inside the tent right behind where we were standing). It was definitely gross, but the band was really good, as usual.
We hung out at Mayfest and then went to Celtic Crown for a little real-live-karaoake. Hany and Grant met us out. The place was pretty crowded and we turned in a few songs... but for some reason, we weren't getting called up to sing. They called JJ, Crystal and I to sing "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" (one of Erin's picks for us to sing). But, after that I think we only got called up once more and Erin never even got called up. We're not sure what was going on, maybe other people were tipping big or something. Who knows. It was fun to listen to other people butcher songs we all know and love, though. : )
On Sunday, we decided to veg out for a little bit and ordered some Giordano's pizza. We watched the last half of Little Miss Sunshine, the part where they get to the pageant and she does the strip tease dance... I love that movie! Then, we watched the movie Juno, which is also very good.
Then, just like that, the weekend was over... I dropped JJ back off at the airport and Crystal off at the Amtrak station. The weekend seemed to fly by way too fast! But it was definitely a good time and I can't wait until the next time we all get together again! : )
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