Man, I love Chicago. Driving down the Kennedy Expressway toward the loop I just got the feeling I was home again. We’re staying under the L on Jewelers Row and we’ve been walking up to Gold Coast, River North, and shopping the Magnificent Mile. We went to dinner last night for our anniversary at Carmine’s. We used to go there when we were dating in college so it’s a full-circle come-around. I also forgot how much I hate Chinatown. I expect anyone with any interest in animal rights or cruelty issues are probably similarly disgusted in Chinatowns everywhere.

We’re having a great time. It’s time to leave, though, for Macomb to see my family. Then we’ll drive to Effingham to see Brandi’s family. Hopefully we’ll be able to drop by Champaign-Urbana to hang out a bit. It’s funny just how much a few years in CU changed my life. I’d probably be living in New York training with Sensei Serge Clark and doing massage now if it weren’t for a fateful, snowy day gazing out the window of Larry’s archaeology lab. Things are going pretty swell the way they are.

Edit:  When I say ‘under the L’, I don’t mean it in an Elwood Blues sort of way.  The Silversmith Hotel is great.  We were really disappointed to see our old hotel, The Cass, was bought by Holiday Inn and consquently sucks.

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