Chi city don't stop

Following last minute errands and saying good bye to our friends, CJ and I started the drive up north to pick up the final member of our group, Mr. Bounds. Not being able to wrap our heads around what we were about to do we spent the whole trip up to maryland musicless discussing the amazing task we were about to start. We couldn't contain the excitement after CJ and I met up with Nate in Baltimore, we had to head out to the windy city. It was 11pm and after several energy drinks we were ready to roll. Taking turns driving through such boring states as Indiana and Ohio, we pushed ourselves through the night. Once the sun rose we made a stop at the Notre Dame campus to see touchdown Jesus, and to walk around. We rolled into Chicago around 11am, just in time to start exploring. We stayed at my uncle Pete's apartment, but we hardly stayed there. He lives in a neighborhood called Wicker Park, it's about 15 minutes outside the city but it's a great place because you still get the city feel but its not nearly as crazy as the downtown area. After being shown around the neighborhood we stopped to have lunch at this amazing Thai restaurant that was byob. Yes folks in Chicago at certain restaurants(actually a lot of them, mostly ethnic eateries) you can bring your own beer, wine, and if you wanted to liquor. They will even bring you a container of ice to chill your beverages, at this point I knew Chicago was going to be awesome. The food was amazing and very affordable, the chicken red curry I got blew my mind and was spiced hot enough to warrant a colonoscopy. After lunch we met up with our friend Tierney from ECU who was interning in Chicago for the summer to show us around. We got the grand tour of the city including men in spandax green leopard jump suites. There is so much to do and so much to see its hard deciding what to do next. After a short nap, it was time to drink. We found a small mexican restaurant to eat at and then proceeded to wash our burritos next door with Pabst Blue Ribbon. After a few Pabst we struck up a conversation with a Chicago local named Bryce. Bryce, who insisted we were all Italian, informed us on how it is better to be arrested in the south than in Chicago because in the south they call you sir. He also explained the finer points of taking Jager Bombs, comparing it to such things as 'sucking on a big titty', implying to be gentle in order to not let the shot glass chip your teeth. We then went to Lincoln Park to further our drinking extravaganza. Now don't get me wrong everyone in Chicago is really nice and friendly, but they give the worst directions. In their defense there used to be 2,000 bars in Chicago, now there are only 600, but we got 5 different directions on how to get to the bars we were trying to go to. After some time in Lincoln Park we headed off to Wrigleyville. While in Wrigleyville we saw none other than. . . Wrigley Field, which kind of pops out of no where and doesn't really seem like it belongs where it does. Apparently this area is packed when the Cubs are in town and when they win they release bears in to the streets to eat children for good luck. The next day we went out to the 'Twisted Spoke" for lunch or as they call it 'Hangover Hospital'. This place is like an upscale biker bar where the motto is 'no crap on tap'. The best time to hit this place is on Saturday where from 12am-2:30am they have 'Smut and Eggs". At this time they serve eggs and show vintage porn, apparently it's not as creepy as it sounds and actually draws a pretty large crowd. After my amazing order of Chillikillas, we went over to south side Chicago. While there we checked out Obama's house which has a 24 hr police barricade, even though he is never there. We then strolled around Chicago University which is right next to where they used to hold the World's Fair. Following our trip to the south side, we went sailing with Pete on lake Michigan. This was absolutely amazing, the weather was perfect and we had an unbelievable view of the city from the water. There's nothing quite like drinking a Dos Equis on a boat in front of the Chicago sky line. Once we finished sailing we went to do what anyone that comes to Chicago has to do and thats have a deep dish pizza. We picked up a pizza from Lou Malnati's and filled ourselves at a chess board table in Wicker Park. All in all Chicago is an amazing city that I would definitely like to come back to and see more of. The people here are very friendly and there is so much to do here there is no way you can be bored. Tomorrow we visit the Badlands in South Dakota, we don't know where were staying yet, god bless America.

-mac