Chicago ... A Must
I'm back in Lakeland, back in the 80's, back in the humidity and the sunshine! Bummer for sure! Recapping our weekend, there were a few funny parts I wish you could have been there for. Dinner at Wild Fire? Wonderful and fortunately, uneventful. I got to take a wonderful whirlpool bath with bubbles and plenty of warm water for my feet! I miss a big tub so when we are away, I always take advantage of the big tubs!!!
Friday morning, we visited the new Jewish Museum that opened an exhibit on their culture and history. I have been reading a couple books on Jewish history and also on Israel. This has helped me better understand the Bible even more. So I was pretty excited to go see this. It wasn't quite completed so I made friends with this 70 something Jewish woman who started explaining to me all the artifacts and the meaning of each item, etc. So when we arrived at this one item and I asked what was the symbolism of it, she looked me dead square and said, "you can't ask me that." I'm standing there with my stomach in my shoes and I can feel my heart completely stop in my chest. I was thinking to myself what could this possible be that made her respond that way. Then she said, "well, it symbolizes when the last temple was destroyed." OOOOOOooooooohhhhhhh!! Now it makes sense ...... leave it to me to ask what something symbolizes and it has to do with what was so sacred to them and it was destroyed. Scott of course has already walked away. Isn't he soooo supportive???!!!!! Shortly after that, we left but the museum was very interesting and I enjoyed it. We walked the streets after that and had lunch at the Grand Lux Cafe! WONDERFUL!!! The best lunch and it had a great, fun atmosphere. I felt sorry for the lady next to us when her 9 month old son started projectile vomitting formula everywhere. Her sister freaked out and the young mom proceeded to yell at her sister for making a scene .... it was quite a little five minute ordeal. I was thinking, "good Lord, I'm not even part of the family and I'm tense!!" Bruce and Mette made it in from Lexington ... we hit a few shops before dinner at the Chicago Chop House. We shopped in Eddie Bauer - well Bruce did most of it. Scott and I sat on the brown couch and it was when I sat down that I realized there was a very large life size brown goose sitting on the table. HHHhhhmmmm... for those of you that know Mette, remember her HUGE bird and feather fear? Could I resist the goose?? Should I??? It was when I picked it up and put it under my arm like a friend and walked up behind her at the counter as they were checking out and asked her, "hey, is everything okay?" She turned around and there it was! The response I knew I would get! The blood curdling scream in a two story Eddie Bauer store and her bolting 20 yards away screaming!!! YES! I GOT IT!!!! And so did the other fifty hundred people in the store that actually congratulated me as they left the store and said, "If anything, that was well worth our trip into the city to see that!" Fortunately, Mette loves me like a bad kidney infection .. smacked me hard a few times while I wiped tears off my face from laughing until my stomach hurt... and she forgave me!!! I can't help it. I really should have my own practical joke show. Needless to say, we had a wonderful dinner and again, walked the streets. It was absolutely windy and freezing cold but we had a great time.
Saturday, we made it again to the Corner Bakery and window shopped all morning. It started snowing around 11am and it was so pretty! Everything started turning white and the snowflakes kept getting bigger! We headed to Gino's for our favorite Chicago pizza. We ended up with the EXACT same waitress as last year and she remembered us!! That was pretty funny ... I guess we are making our mark in Chicago :) We came out of the restaurant and then, it was sleet! It was cold, windy and ice hitting us in the face. We found solace in some more stores and had dinner much later at Wild Fire again. Bruce and Mette had never eaten there and we didn't mind it again.
It was on the way to the restaurant that we decided to avoid the sleet/rain/freezing cold wind and take a taxi. And it was at that point that Scott forgot the other man in front of our building that almost fell on the ice ten minutes prior. I remembered and did a half moon to get around it into the cab. Scott ... not so much. He walked straight and right to the taxi until he hit the invisible ice. At that point, I turned around and he was flat on his back with his leg/shoe in a huge deep puddle of sludge ice water and ice was flying!!!! We were like, "What the heck are you doing?" He gets up and slides into the taxi and Mette and I laughed all the way to the restaurant until we almost wet our pants! Luckily, he was okay .... a little sore during dinner but okay!! Second time Scott falls on ice in Chicago!
Sunday, again the Corner Bakery --- I was ready for something different but some people don't like change! We packed our stuff and headed to the airport in the rain. Our flight was an hour late into Tampa. The pilot said be ready for a bumpy flight not once, but five times. So we were a little worried. But it ended up okay :) The nap on the plane was good ..... All in all, a great trip and a great time! I can't imagine not doing Chicago at Christmas! Wish you were there!!!
Friday morning, we visited the new Jewish Museum that opened an exhibit on their culture and history. I have been reading a couple books on Jewish history and also on Israel. This has helped me better understand the Bible even more. So I was pretty excited to go see this. It wasn't quite completed so I made friends with this 70 something Jewish woman who started explaining to me all the artifacts and the meaning of each item, etc. So when we arrived at this one item and I asked what was the symbolism of it, she looked me dead square and said, "you can't ask me that." I'm standing there with my stomach in my shoes and I can feel my heart completely stop in my chest. I was thinking to myself what could this possible be that made her respond that way. Then she said, "well, it symbolizes when the last temple was destroyed." OOOOOOooooooohhhhhhh!! Now it makes sense ...... leave it to me to ask what something symbolizes and it has to do with what was so sacred to them and it was destroyed. Scott of course has already walked away. Isn't he soooo supportive???!!!!! Shortly after that, we left but the museum was very interesting and I enjoyed it. We walked the streets after that and had lunch at the Grand Lux Cafe! WONDERFUL!!! The best lunch and it had a great, fun atmosphere. I felt sorry for the lady next to us when her 9 month old son started projectile vomitting formula everywhere. Her sister freaked out and the young mom proceeded to yell at her sister for making a scene .... it was quite a little five minute ordeal. I was thinking, "good Lord, I'm not even part of the family and I'm tense!!" Bruce and Mette made it in from Lexington ... we hit a few shops before dinner at the Chicago Chop House. We shopped in Eddie Bauer - well Bruce did most of it. Scott and I sat on the brown couch and it was when I sat down that I realized there was a very large life size brown goose sitting on the table. HHHhhhmmmm... for those of you that know Mette, remember her HUGE bird and feather fear? Could I resist the goose?? Should I??? It was when I picked it up and put it under my arm like a friend and walked up behind her at the counter as they were checking out and asked her, "hey, is everything okay?" She turned around and there it was! The response I knew I would get! The blood curdling scream in a two story Eddie Bauer store and her bolting 20 yards away screaming!!! YES! I GOT IT!!!! And so did the other fifty hundred people in the store that actually congratulated me as they left the store and said, "If anything, that was well worth our trip into the city to see that!" Fortunately, Mette loves me like a bad kidney infection .. smacked me hard a few times while I wiped tears off my face from laughing until my stomach hurt... and she forgave me!!! I can't help it. I really should have my own practical joke show. Needless to say, we had a wonderful dinner and again, walked the streets. It was absolutely windy and freezing cold but we had a great time.
Saturday, we made it again to the Corner Bakery and window shopped all morning. It started snowing around 11am and it was so pretty! Everything started turning white and the snowflakes kept getting bigger! We headed to Gino's for our favorite Chicago pizza. We ended up with the EXACT same waitress as last year and she remembered us!! That was pretty funny ... I guess we are making our mark in Chicago :) We came out of the restaurant and then, it was sleet! It was cold, windy and ice hitting us in the face. We found solace in some more stores and had dinner much later at Wild Fire again. Bruce and Mette had never eaten there and we didn't mind it again.
It was on the way to the restaurant that we decided to avoid the sleet/rain/freezing cold wind and take a taxi. And it was at that point that Scott forgot the other man in front of our building that almost fell on the ice ten minutes prior. I remembered and did a half moon to get around it into the cab. Scott ... not so much. He walked straight and right to the taxi until he hit the invisible ice. At that point, I turned around and he was flat on his back with his leg/shoe in a huge deep puddle of sludge ice water and ice was flying!!!! We were like, "What the heck are you doing?" He gets up and slides into the taxi and Mette and I laughed all the way to the restaurant until we almost wet our pants! Luckily, he was okay .... a little sore during dinner but okay!! Second time Scott falls on ice in Chicago!
Sunday, again the Corner Bakery --- I was ready for something different but some people don't like change! We packed our stuff and headed to the airport in the rain. Our flight was an hour late into Tampa. The pilot said be ready for a bumpy flight not once, but five times. So we were a little worried. But it ended up okay :) The nap on the plane was good ..... All in all, a great trip and a great time! I can't imagine not doing Chicago at Christmas! Wish you were there!!!
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