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On Monday of last week, a day before my birthday, I went on vacation. I went to visit my friend Laura who lives about 45 minutes outside of Chicago. I didn't get in until fairly late at night. Long flight and a connection etc. I must say though, that the O'Hare is a weird airport. After the planes land, they taxi in on runways that go over busy streets below. Also, they have all these announcements and signs saying that solicitation is not legal at the airport. I was wondering if they had that many problems with hookers, but I soon figured out it had to do with taxis.
Anyway, I didn't do a whole lot the first night there, since we still had the drive back to her place. We stopped at a steak and shake, since I hadn't been to one of those before. One thing on my trips is that I love trying new foods and interesting restaurants. On tuesday, we played some miniature golf, which I kicked ass at and went to this big candy factory called Albanese. They had this huge indoor chocolate waterfall that was probably about 25 feet tall. They also had jawbreakers the size of a softball. Oh, I have pictures of some of these things from my trips, which I will be posting on facebook. I might post some of them here if I feel up to it. After all that we came back and I dominated phase 10 and some yahtzee.
Wednesday she had a bit of work to do, and I have some school work, so we went to lunch at this place called the noodle company that was pretty good. We didn't have one of those here either. After I got my school work done and Laura was done working, we went to Walmart and got some groceries for the week. Thursday was the day we went into Chicago. We checked out the museum of science and industry, went to the aquarium, and walked by soldier field (Da Bears). At the end we went to Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. and I got this nifty drink with a glass that had LED lights that I got to keep. And the mall had this huge stained glass window exhibit. I mean easily over 100 different pieces. I took some pictures of those too. Chicago streets were kind of crazy. I would have liked to check out a few of the amazing theaters that they have there, but I didn't get the chance.
Friday we ended up going bowling and having some chicago style pizza. It was different, but pretty good. I haven't bowled in a long time, but I still averaged a 155 over 3 games. We played some pool and then spent most of the night watching movies. Saturday we went and saw Rango in theaters. It started out a bit slow, but it was pretty decent overall. I liked it. After that we had to check up on her parents' house since they were away on vacation. They had all sorts of stuff. Foosball, ping pong table, air hockey, and a few other things. We ended up saying there for a few hours messing around.
As my vacation came to a close, She showed me around her work. She works at this really nifty gymnastics place. And I got to jump around on these huge trampolines and mats. It was pretty cool actually. We ate at this restaurant called Industrial Revolution. The building is all brick and steel girders, and has statues of workers from that time period all over. The food was pretty good, but the design is what caught my eye. I had to fly out Monday. So most of the day was spent getting stuff ready and heading back into Chicago. It was a fun trip though, and she made me these woolen slippers that she knitted that were green and yellow for the oregon ducks. It was a pretty fun trip. Not overly thrilling or packed with excitement. But it was pretty fun and I got to relax which was nice.
