Monday, November 15, 2010

how to plan an impromptu trip to chicago

1. The night before your trip, decide you want to go somewhere the next day. Toss around nearby cities you haven't yet visited - Minneapolis, Milwaukee - but agree on going back to Chicago.

2. Check your hotel points. Enough for a free night! Find the coolest hotel available for your points. Book it!

3. Get up on Saturday morning and drive to Harvard, IL.

4. Take the train from Harvard to Chicago!

5. Drop off your bags at the cool hotel.

6. Hit up Michigan Avenue for winter clothes shopping!

7. Attempt to grab a bottle of wine to bring to friends' apartment. Somehow end up in an artisanal cheese shop with an overly enthusiastic cheesemonger/sommelier. Wonder if living in Wisconsin gives you fancy cheese shop radar.

8. Meet up with friends for dinner at excellent Mexican tapas restaurant. (But use old picture to document because you forgot to take one that night.)

9. After dinner, head back to friends' apartment. Enlist the men to bake brownies!

10. Next morning, wake up at your cool hotel.

11. Spend the morning at the Art Institute.



12. After a quick lunch, catch the 2:00 matinee of Billy Elliot, the musical.

13. Get one more glance of Chicago.

14. And catch the train back home.

3 comments:

  1. you guys are so cute and so fun! Jeremy and I were definitely there in spirit! What a COOL hotel! I love that you found a fancy cheese/wine shop - looks to me like Chicago is trying to be as hip and cool as Madison :)

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  2. Hey now...Chicago IS very hip and cool.:)

    What a great blog. I need to remember to read this more often!

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  3. I want to do a cheese store (or cheese block)per capita study - Chicago versus Madison - and see who wins - I'm putting my money on Madison!

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