Holy crap, it's time! Are you ready for pictures and lots to read? I hope so. And you'd better comment damnit.
Day 1 - Friday June 20th
We arrive in Chicago around 8am, after driving all night. Right away, we meet our
Jason. We went upstairs, checked out the apartment. It was HUGE. It was once a basketball court, and now it's this immense apartment. There was a nice
from the kitchen window (the screen was in my way). After that we took a walk down the street to the Steak & Egger for breakfast. I got a hot tea
from Waldorf! and some french toast. It was tasty.
Post-breakfast, we walked back to the apartment, and most of us crashed while Jason got stuff together for the party that night. And a party it was. There were at least 100 - 150 people there, old rich people, young ravers, any kind of person you can think of, they were there. There was a
that played, and I can't remember their name, but they were good. There were Flamenco dancers, and a couple DJ's. It was insane. Those of us that had traveled all night ended up crashing before the party was over.
Day 2 - Saturday June 21st
The day of the Tattoos! We got up, walked down to Steak & Egger, this time with Cyrus and Adam, 2 of Jason's roommates. We all ate a nice hardy breakfast, and then went to the Native Soul tattoo parlor.
Mine! Wee!
Cassie's!
Rick's!
Jason's!
Judy's! (Carrie's mom)
Carrie's! (with the exception of Cyrus and Adam, they were poor, so they went to the park instead) and we spent 7 hours and $550 in that place. That was insane.
After the tattoos, we went back and grabbed Cyrus and went to Dick's Last Resort for dinner. That place was crazy. The waiters are rude, you are encouraged to throw napkins at other tables, and the food is greasy. They make hats for people out of paper with embarassing sayings on them.
Our waiter got annoyed with me because I kept asking for refills, so he brought me
(By the way, that's Cyrus beside me) There was this one guy at the next table over that had the best aim. He kept hitting me like, between the eyes, or in my neck. Crazy man. Speaking of crazy men, the 3 guys behind me in the picture of my drink, they were insane. They kept dancing and tapping the top of Cassie's hat, and one of them poured salt in it. After we left Dick's, we took 2 seperate cabs home. Me, Judy, Cassie and Cyrus took one, and Rick, Carrie, and Jason took another. I had to sit in the front of ours, and Judy and Cyrus tried to hook me up with our cab driver, Abderrah. That was so weird. Judy says, "Hey Ed! (she didn't know his name and she was trashed) Have you met Dyanna? She's been sitting beside you all this way, you should at least know each other!" and he said hi to me and whatnot, and then Cyrus says, "She's single!" and the next thing I know, Judy is all about trying to hook me up with this guy. She's like, "She's only 19! How old are you? Only 23? That's perfect! She's young, fresh meat! Are you married? No? It's a match!" and I'm just like, "Err.... no?"
We got back to the apartment, and hung out. I got to see Cyrus and Adam's room, which had
They even modeled in front of it for me! it looked so cool. I played a little basket ball with Cyrus and Adam, which wore my fat little white girl ass out.
Day 3 - Sunday June 22nd
Woke up kinda late, spent forever showering, and finally got up and went off to the zoo for the day. On the way there, we saw a really pretty
A lot of things closed before we got to see them, like the buildings with the animals inside. We ate at the cafe inside the zoo, it was decently tasty. We went on the paddle boats, and now, I'm a paddle boat slut, because I've been on paddle boats with 3 different boys. Haha. While on the paddle boats, I took some pictures of some
Then we wandered around the zoo, and I saw
and a
and even a
After the zoo, we went down to the Belmont Ave, and hung out and shopped. We went in this awesome store called The Alley, and I got a
(if you look close, there's a red star pin there too that I got.) We also went in a sex shop where Cassie displayed
for all to see.
After the shopping, we ate at Clark's. Tasty food, awesome fun menu and pictures on the wall. "You should eat!"
Then we headed back to the apartment, but before we went upstairs, we checked out Jason's land-lady's own personal zoo. She had all kinds of animals, like a
, some kind of
, and even a
. There were others, including a bat, a skunk, some chickens and ferrets and rats and snakes.
We went back up into the apartment and just chilled for a while again. I kept hitting Cyrus with my magazine, and he hit me back eventually. Crashed after a while.
Day 4 - Monday June 23rd
Our last day in Chicago! We got up, gathered our stuff together, sat around for a bit and watched American Pie 2, and then headed out to lunch at the restaurant where Jason works, Pazzo's. It was a fancy schmancy place in the first floor of a huge office building next to the Sears Tower. Fancy schmancy, and still cool enough to have a chicken parmesan sandwich and french fries. Cyrus met us there because he knew we were leaving, and he also knew it was a free meal. (Jason's boss paid for the whole meal, all 7 people!) Cy actually left in the middle of an exam so that he could come hang out before we had to leave. We ate and were merry. After lunch, Cyrus had to run off so he could go finish his exam, but everybody got hugs first. Then we headed back to the apartment, where we hung out for one last time. We grabbed our stuff, and the
, and headed off, away from the crazy city of wind.