these shoes were not made for walkin

Either that or I’m just an old fart. I brought my Sambas figuring they’re comfortable as hell, they’ll be fine. Dude, things are not fine in the zapato world of my feet right now.

So we got to Chicago on Saturday sometime before lunch. Took the train from Midway, and had to transfer to another line because the construction in downtown. No biggie. “Just keep going down to the red line at the Roosevelt station” was the common advice. Dude, they were NOT kidding about going down into the depths Chicago, from what I understand, has a lot more L trains – elevated – than subways. The redline is a subway.

Tell you what, if Obama wins(and yes Mike, I’m crossing my fingers), this city is going to be nuts, and with the trains under construction on the loop. Ooooh doggie, I’m glad I’m leaving Tuesday afternoon.

We waited for my parents, aunts, and my bro and sis-in-law to get here(with my two nieces) and jumped into cabs to my sisters. I’m amazed at how much cabs cost…so used to just jumping in my car and driving. I wish the trains hadn’t been screwed, would have been easier and cheaper to get out to her. Anyway, hung out, had some good shish-ke-bab at Pegs, came back wiped from the trip.

Oh yeah, did I tell you we woke up at 5:15 to get to Philly for our flight? Yeah, I think I forgot to mention that little tidbit.

BUT! We gained an hour coming to Chicago, and another hour that night because of Daylight savings. Thank you!!! Everyone was up at like 7:30, and I had almost 11 hours of sleep. Needed it bigtime.

My sisters daughter was being baptized in an episcopalian church – very crunchy, down to earth, lots of open minded people – lots of music, clapping, dancing at one point:) They had a louisiana type bad walk around the block to celebrate day of the dead – very cool place indeed. Went back to the house and hung out for the afternoon, good to hang out with her on her home turf. The kids disappeared upstairs all day and outside, and down the block and around back. Brought home two tired puppies last night.

Today we went around a cool art museum, walked the Magnificient Mile (I think), went to the Hershey Store and grabbed some seriously great Deep Dish pizza. Man was that some good stuff. Went to the ferris wheel at the Navy Pier and then came back. Needless to say, we’re tired as hell, and I’m starting to see double. Maybe more tomorrow night, but I will definitely have pics up by wednesday.

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