After our lovely stay in Charleston, SC we drove off to Richmond, VA to visit with Mike's buddy Matt. He runs a pasta cart in downtown Richmond and is a keen specialty vodka collector, so we were obviously well cared for!
The next morning we did a little (highly successful) vintage shopping in Richmond, where I found two of my favourite dresses I've found yet! Baltimore was great, meeting Quincy was a pleasure and I managed to find one or two wonderful skirts! After a visit with a couple of friends of ours, Chad and Ally (who are getting married in 5 weeks!!) who took wonderful care of us and made us a delicious breakfast, we were back on the road for a long drive to Chicago! Eight hours later, after some silly van fever non sense and a depressing drive through Gary, Indiana we arrived at the Windy City, thoroughly exhausted but determined to get a feel for the place!
We ended up sharing delicious dirty martinis at a bar called The Blue Line that felt straight out of an episode of Mad Men and treated us really well! We looked around the Wicker Park area a little but everything was closed, so we finally retreated to our airport side motel and passed out!
Today we did all things toursity; the John Hancock Observatory, a walk down the Magnificent Mile, a visit to the Navy Pier and some less than satisfying H&M shopping as well as a visit to Millenium Park and the Lego Store (for Mike). We meandered over to Kuma's Corner over in Roscoe Village for dinner. They have a pretty exciting Metal Music theme going on and their burgers are all named for bands like Mastodon, Metallica and Iron Maiden. I had a Kaijo burger and Mike loved his Neurosis burger and the people who work there are awesome! Just make sure to go early because lineups go up to about an hour around supper time. After supper, we walked around the Wicker Park neighborhood and browsed through some pretty exciting used record and book shops, where Mike found a book he had been looking for on Russian History!
We had no idea what to expect driving into the city, and both of us are so thoroughly impressed I wanted to share my excitement with you right away! You can count on a Part Two to this city though, because it really is the greatest. I think, other than Nashville this is one American city I would move to in a heartbeat!
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