Written by: Craig
City: Chicago
Weather: Really cold, but dry, -4C; Windchill: Enough to strip your face off
Today started with a walk to a health food shop for breakfast (at Kramer's), a stop for a mocha with deadly cream (at Intelligentsia) and a posting home of some of our heavy stuff (at the Post Office). Somewhere in there we decided to blow off a touristy visit to Millenium Park, and instead grab a Brown Line train to Belmont Station to visit the Threadless tshirt outlet. Brown Line. I'm still laughing a puerile laugh. '10 carriages, groaning down the Brown Line'. Okay, I'll stop.
Threadless was good (it even had New Order playing when we arrived, just to make Crystal feel like she'd found mecca!) -- but only had 20 tshirt designs on show (they change them every 2 weeks). What was REALLY good was the area we found ourselves in AROUND the outlet. So many awesome shops, really cool! Used bookstores, funky weird crap stores, an awesome record store called Reckless Records -- it really felt like we'd found the Brunswick end of Chicago AND WE LIKED IT! What was interesting was that at least three of the stores had vintage Playboys for sale. But nothing quite says, "No Sale" like second hand porn.
We finished up getting some tasty Indian food, then walking through the REALLY cold night back to the train station on Belmont. It was thoroughly relieving and satisfying to feel the rumble in our stomachs as the Brown Line train rumbled in its approach. HA, SEE WHAT I DID THERE, I MADE ANOTHER BROWN JOKE!
We returned to the hotel (THE HILTON, BITCHES!), had a Guinness at the Irish Bar downstairs, and called it a night. Tomorrow we head to Hobart, Indiana, to hang with more of Crystal's family. Sounds like it's gonna be pretty swoit!
Behold the pictures!
We SO joked around with this, until we actually got hit by some falling ice
Crystal rides the Brown Line train, emotions under control
Crystal arrives at the Threadless store, emotions run amok
Inside Reckless Records, best record store we've seen!
A cool vintage clothes shop
Craig, playing through tears of joy, having found an old Karate Champ machine ($450 to buy, but the postage home would be prohibitive) Astute viewers will observe that Crystal waited until Craig got hit in the nuts before taking the shot
The walk back along Belmont Street
Crystal, overwhelmed in a second-hand bookstore
Junk food of the day: the gooiest chocolate and caramel clouds ever
2 comments:
Chocolate and Caramel clouds... Well, I never! And to think how much those teeth cost!!!
Can you take it intravenously and bypass the mouth please?
CzC
Like the Clouds themselves, it's the chocolate and caramel that hold my teeth together :) hehehehe
Crystal.
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