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Thanksgiving Trip to Chicago and Indiana

Well we made it back after a 10 hour or so drive from Indiana. We had a great Thanksgiving up in the Indiana Dunes/Chicago for the past week. Chicago was great, we toured the city with my folks showing wifey the various sites the city has. We showed her the Water Tower Mall and subsequent Water Tower.

Walked by the John Hancock Building

We ascended the Sears Tower. Which was pretty cool, it was pretty much only one of three Chicago landmarks I haven't seen, the other two being Wrigley (inside of it) and the Shed Aquarium.

It was a pretty impressive view

Here's a pic of the fam.

Then Wifey and I topped off the trip with a pie of Chicago style Pizza from Giordano's.

This Picture makes me hungry every time I look at it... it was the best pizza as it was all cheese!

We then on Wednesday drove in the middle of a blizzard to Indiana where we were staying for the week. The drive was terrible and a normally hour and a half drive turned into 3 hours due to traffic and snow. We made it there about a quarter to five and had just enough time to go to the outlet mall that was five minutes from where we were staying to do one quick hour of outlet shopping before the stores closed. The thing is they have all the same sales on Wednesday as they do on Friday but no one's there. So I got some Timberlands for cheap and some gifts for the wifey.

Turkey day was good we played football on the beach, the snow was all gone by morning. Then had a great night of turkey, ping pong, and lots and lots of wine. It was a great day.

Then Black Friday: we braved the outlet mall but to our surprise the lines weren't bad and the people weren't that numerous. I had to wait in line for two pairs of pants at Old Navy for about 10 minutes but that wasn't bad. I just thought back to Soviet Russia and was happy that capitalism has smaller lines.

The highlight of that day was Hunt's trip to the Sock Shop, a store specializing in socks, infact its all they sell. He spent a good 20 to 30 minutes in the sock shop, looking at various kinds of socks. From wool, to wick a way, to cotton, they had all a manner of sock. The store clerks were very helpful in providing useful sock pointers, and were a great aid to Hunt's Sock Shop shopping. He purchased some very expensive socks much to my amusement. The entire idea of a store soley aimed at selling socks cracks me up for some dumb reason. Here was the actual transation as it took place, if you look closely you can see a wall of socks behind the register. I informed Hunt they kept the nice socks behind the register to keep them away from vandals.

We then had a day of Football, sitting by the fire, and playing spades. No matter what team I was on I.e. playing with wifey or my brother Hunt, I lost. I was terrible, am Terrible, and am convinced there are only two people in this world that can predict my unpredictable spades bidding, Roe and Crabby. They're the only ones who seem to be able to harness my irregular play and insane Double Blind Nill Attack.

We came back today through a 10 hour drive entirely in rain. It didn't stop i don't think at all. It was a good trip though and we're looking forward to next year possibly doing the same thing.

Posted by holtonian at November 27, 2004 11:36 PM | TrackBack