lil’s christmas party in chicago

Posted in Travel, Us on Dec 06, 2008

we went up to the Windy City (lil’s first real trip there) to go to her Christmas party, and enjoy a weekend of frigid temperatures and high winds – less than 5 days after returning from St. Lucia. the party was nice…..but growing up at andersen consulting, you get you to the Christmas party being a lavish event where new hire puke in the restrooms and some partners wife is dancing a little too close with a consultant…so anything less than that always feels like, “eh, it was a nice dinner.” : )

it’s good to know you can find the comforts of home wherever you go….even at this little establishment that seems somewhat curiously placed right off of rush st.
we walked in a loop around wrigley looking for a bama bar…..we knew there was one nearby.

jackpot – the houdstooth. now, that’s what i’m talking about – comforts of home!! a welcoming place to watch us take on the gators and urban meyer, and tim tebow, and all the little leper kids that tim tebow has healed.

here are lil and i before kickoff in front of a faux deer horn chandelier.

a video of the excitement that is bama football in chicago and a surreptitious display of a texas tech symbol by my wife.

the game didn’t work out well for us in the end, but we had a good time regardless (as evidenced by the videos).

here’s a view from the window of our room at the sheraton.

here’s lillis in front of the famous lion (or one of the two famous lions) that greet visitors to the art institute of chicago – probably my favorite museum in the world. they have one particular room (the helen birch bartlett) that is hands down my favorite anywhere. monets, the famous seurat, van gogh’s bedroom and picasso’s guitarista. solid stuff. unfortunatlely, all of those things (except the seurat) were not showing whilest we were there due to construction : (

we did get to see this, however….i’ve always liked the positioning of the oldenberg statue an the lichtenstein.

and their stellar collection of remingtons

not pictured are the fabulous winslow homers and georgia o’keefes, or any of the 1,000 times i checked my nose to see if it was running…..did i mention it was cold….i mean COLD!
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One Response to “lil’s christmas party in chicago”


  1. cvs says:
    December 26, 2008 at 12:25 pm

    this blog rocks. thanks for sharing. congrats on your first christmas together and to many more….cvs



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