Chicago was a great success - and, naturally, very windy.
What you’ll see here includes:A gourmet charcuterie shop that had been open one week and was already overrun by hipsters to the point of standing room only
The Bean, the outdoor theater, the Marilyn Monroe statue, and other awesome touristy landmarks
The Hughes brothers, childhood friends since age 4, separated from me for 15 years and reunited by Facebook
A Lego store!
The wonderful Jeff and Abby (henceforth Jabby ), who kindly hosted me for the latter half of the trip and showed me their awesome city neighborhood
A truly bizarre picture owned by Jabby
A black paper crane on the anniversary of 3/11What you won’t see here:
Food porn, despite eating wonderfully well (thanks to Jon Hughes’ mastery of all things culinary!)
The Hughes brothers’ parents or girlfriends, all of whom were wonderful. The parents, especially, were great to catch up with as someone verging on grown-up
The rest of the Mexican clothing shop Jeff and I walked through: though that denim blazer thing is unique, there were also tactical vests and a belt buckle with a weed leaf and ‘SINALOA’ in giant lettering (hint: drug cartel reference)
