Chicago

Well i went off to chicago and it was i must admit a blast, luckily the weather was much warmer and so beautiful. The weather in kansas on the way up there was crazy though. The girls mother that i was taking up there was pretty worried we would get stuck there. Not such luck though although we did have quite the switch around with hotels and the like. Not to mention I had to mod the whole trip because the first girl I was going to take got sick with mono and strep. So obviously she couldn't go but expedia was super cool and comped me for her ticket. The flight was easy no difficulties on taking off but when we landed apparently another flight had caught on fire or something so we couldn't leave out plane for an hr. i did get a book finished then though, Neil Gaimans Interworld. Its a fantastic read and i recommend it :D. We get there and find out that the hotel i got is way out in the boonies. By the boonies i mean on the complete opposite side of the city in the suburbs High north when the concert was in the deep south.

Well Had to change up hotels once again expedia helped me out there with still alot of confusion it wasn't until we got to the second hotel that we were trying to book that a really cool hotel manager sat us down explained a lot of Chicago to us and booked us in the merchant market. Now we hoped the trains and took off towards the merchant mart and it was a good long ways away so thank good for cheap public transfer in chicago cause cabs are expensive. But we eventually made it to the merchant mart in the heart of downtown chicago and tooled around in the shops and stores. Found a book store that was going out of business and made sure to pick up ever Neil Gaiman book they had and I didn't not to mention a Micheal Crighton book that they found at his place after his death fully complete. excited to read that. Finally made it to our hotel which was i admit more expensive but wow was it amazing. They had a sky bar that I ended up spending most of my time at over the trip.

Checked into our room had two marvelously big beds, just a very pretty room and we relaxed. i really wanted to check out the sky bar and Meredith said she needed to get ready to i took off to sit and relax with a martini in a sky bar. First of in a really expensive bar martinis are very expensive and had it not been for a random girl asking me to take part in a free very old scotch tasting i would have felt I spent too much there. After the martini I ordered Japanese beers and Guinness. Their Guinness was an elixar of the gods though soooooo good. So I sat there looking out over a beautiful city and reading my second book. Odd and the frost giants. It's a very short book and I polished it off that evening. Meredith came down and we grabbed a cab to go see eddie izzard Who was just as funny as he always is. I laughed until my face hurt from smiling. And I got to sit on the floor where Micheal Jordan had become a legend. Eddie's skit was very british and I'm used to that I have lived with a brit and watch alot of britsh tv. When I showed my roomate later he couldn't catch half the jokes. But in the moment they were very spot on. Very Izzard. Took a bus and a train back after the show because the cabs were charging rediculous amount of money to get out of the bad part of chicago went back to the sky bar and ordered a deep dish pizza to be delivered. After filling our bellies we decided to hit the hay and look forward to our adventours tommorrow.

After sleeping in we got up and took a trip over to the Chicago institute of art really made me wonder about getting into art school again. But i picked up an application fro my brothers who i believe will do great things in the world of art. Then we took off into the city to check out all the sites. While chicago was beautiful that day nothing in downtown was open. It was really weird all the shops were closed down and had signs saying only open on the weekdays. Lesson learned for the next trip i take out this way. So without any shops to duck into we ate at a subway. Then took the trains back to the Airport where my tickets were once again changed for an earlier flight. I swear i made a ridiculous amount of changes to my itinerary. Made it back to KC alright and then back to Manhattan. Not bad weather to worry about or nothing. When I got back i immediately picked cherry up and went to a party. Bad idea i had already worked a ton that week and topping that off with a long distance trip and severe lack of sleep i was not the life of the party to say the least. Luckily I crashed hard that night and didn't wake up till late the next day ready to go to work again. returning to normal life and well thus the story goes.