“I can’t seem to stop circling Uranus!”
I busted out of work just before 5 (unprecedented for a friday), and once Lucy was done lollygagging dropping a friend off at the airport, we were on our way to Chi-town.
We got there late, of course, but her uncle is this amazing dude who says things like, “use this house as your own while we’re gone” and “please drink all my liquor”, so it was like, er, home. ‘cept with a plasma screen.
I’d said I wasn’t going to stay up reading things in the guest room, but then I found Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Great Glass Elevator, and well, it was 3 am before I knew it.
Breakfast was fantabulous egg muffins, and then we grabbed some tasty/strange caramel/cheddar corn while we waited for the train.
I love riding the train through interesting territory, especially with good company. ;) Blue skies, warm weather, and fun snacks to munch!
We hauled our clothing and toys to Vanessa and Brian’s place, where they greeted us with wii matches and mii trade-offs. Woo hoo! They took us out for tappas (my first), and it was fabulous food all around, plus a bit of drinkery to round the night out ;). We pounded the floors with some DDR and flung things about with elebits, and collapsed exhausted into beds.
Sunday, we sat about the place in our jams while vanessa made a feast! Mmmm boy, I was livin’ large. SolarQuest was the name of the afternoon game, which is kind of like monopoly in space, except you also have to keep track of fuel. I made a respectable finish, and then Lucy and I were off to Fogo de Chaos.
If I’ve never mentioned fogo’s before, the food is… incredible. Just amazing. And also unlimited.
We finished just in time to make it to Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind, an awesome Chicago play I saw once before with the beekeepers. Krystyn joined us for this, after picking us up from the el, and Lucy and I were made to dance the electric slide or one of its variants. I’m told Krystyn has some wonderfully embarrassing photos of it ;)
We stopped for coffee and conversation before parting ways, and watched Little Miss Sunshine with Lucy’s crew before crashing out for the night. And today’s been a lazy day of catching up on LJ (me) and reading (her) before visiting V’s coffee shop on the way to the train.
It hasn’t been a typical city holiday, but it’s been totally fun. Much thanks goes to V and B for picking us up, dropping us off, giving us to place to stay, entertaining us, feeding us, and generally making our lives easy peasy.
mmmmmmmmmmm Fogo meatgasm…. aaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuggggghhhhh…………
Hahahaha, those were good times. :)
Dangit, now I have a Fogo craving too.
— Steve’s thinking the better part of a side of beef fed our table there. And that beer was a great match with it, too.
PS: I am literally salivating at the memory.
Yeah, but let me tell you – i forgot how expensive it can be to get there during dinnertime as opposed to late lunch!
Yeah, serious meatgasms. We had a bit o salad first, and we didn’t have time to, y’know, digest and go back for round two, but we stuffed ourselves silly in 60 minutes’ time.
What was Lucy’s nametag, again?
Boobs In My Mouth
That sounds like a fabulous weekend. I am curious to hear more about this Fogo de Chaos…
Meat for days. Incredible huge salad bar coupled with waiters walking around with skewers of the most amazing meat you’ve ever had, and they don’t stop until you stop.
That sounds precisely like a Brazilian barbeque place… which, looking at Google, it is! Hurrah!
You are very much welcome. I can only speak for myself in saying that I had a great time with you guys: A great time winning Dread Pirate, a great time winning Solarquest, and a great time co-oping a win with you in Wii Sports Tennis. ;-P
I’m glad to have met you, and know that you and Lucy are always invited to visit…even if we’re not there too much longer.
Ooh, I forgot the Dread Pirate bit! That was muy fun.
Lucy and I are right now trying desperately to find her car keys, and hoping we didn’t leave them at your place, or (worse) at her uncle’s place. No one will be back there for a week!
Mmm, Fogo de Chao.. *drool*
Glad you had such a good time!
Fogo de Chaos.
Ah, yes. The food is awesome.
What did you think of Little Miss Sunshine?
Both Lucy and I thought our favorite character was Dwayne. We enjoyed it, even though we knew where it was going.
Sounds like fun! I had tappas for lunch Monday :)