Weekend in Chi-town

This past weekend I joined the Streit clan for a trip to the Windy City! We left after school on Friday and after a small traffic jam due to an exploded semi (literally) we made it to Jess's aunt's house in the 'burbs around 8:30 and then headed out for Mexican food.

Squeezing three people to one side of a booth clearly meant for two people...

The next morning, we all headed into Chicago via the train and walked to Millennium Park to do some sight seeing (essentially the Bean)

Besties

The Bean

Messing around

Trippy

Buildings

After walking a bit, we went out to a sports bar (a super fancy one at that) just in time to watch Iowa lose to Central Michigan!!! Ha! Then we headed back home and watched some more football and drink some wine. :)

The next day, we headed back into the city early to watch the Cubbies! The Cubs suck this year (kinda like every year for the past hundred...) but you really can't beat the atmosphere at Wrigley. We got some food and beverages in Wrigleyville, hitting up some Iowa and Michigan bars (sadly no Iowa State bars were in sight) before heading to the stadium. The seats we had were pretty awesome, and even though it was freezing and the Cubs lost, it was still a lot of fun! 

The famous sign

Take me out to the ballgame...

With the enemy, the Cardinal fans!

This is the not the first time this picture has happened, neither will it be the last...I am not photogenic!

We left at the top of the 9th because the Cubs were sucking it up and we thought we could beat the after game rush for the L...how WRONG we were! Apparently there was some mechanical issue down the line with the track and we got delayed for a while. Long enough that Jess's sister and her boyfriend stayed until the end of the game and battled the crowd and still made it on the same train as us! 

All in all, it was a fun weekend...even though waking up on Monday was a wee bit rough!