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| Me and a lifesize Woody made of LEGOS! |
My mother and I woke up early and headed to Sally’s house (a friend of hers from College of
DuPage). We hung out at her house for a bit before she drove us to Downtown
Chicago with her sister and two, beautiful, adopted children. I sat on the couch and talked with Krista (who was an instant best friend because of the similarities of our names) and laughed out loud as Sally ran from room to room while holding a conversation with my mother… whom was sitting right next to me, “No- it’s okay… go on… just YELL- I can still hear you!”
After the ride into town (in which I learned –vaguely- how to operate a
Nintendo DS), Mom and I practically lept from the van to the sidewalk as Sally and her family sped away to their next appointment (Chicago traffic can be murder). The two of us happily scuttled from shop to shop, soaking in the downtown holiday splendor, and I never quite mastered the smooth transitioning from bitter cold streets to cozy holiday stores. At one point, I became so overwhelmed at the feeling of being trapped indoors wearing my mini-sauna, that I threw my belongings to the ground at the top of the escalator and peeled one layer after another. It was truly an ordeal. Besides the straps of my purse, camera and camera bag locking me into this shenanigans, the zipper of my jacket got stuck!
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| I love a good hybrid bus. :) |
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| Get it, Mom! |
Mom humored my photo-taking obsession by taking me to
Millennium Park, and we ended our downtown adventure at the
Walnut Room in
Macy’s (the old Marshall Fields). The Walnut room is a nice restaurant located on the 6
th floor of Macy’s in which the waiters wear gloves, a fairy-princess sprinkles glitter on your table, and you sit around a HUGE, dazzling Christmas tree. (People slink around the restaurant just to get a glimpse of it.) Mom and I each ordered a bowl of Butternut squash soup, and it was simply DIVINE! It would be difficult to rival the splendor of these creamy masterpieces, but our chocolate cakes tried pretty hard.
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| The Bean! |
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| Butternut squash soup... mmmmm |
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| Chocolate cake... double Mmmmm! |
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| Our nice waiter took a pic of us at the Walnut Room. |
The two of us had no trouble boarding the train back to West Chicago (except for the confusing fact that none of the trains were actually labeled), and Grandma and Grandpa picked us up in that trusty old van of theirs.
What a great day. :)
