Chi Town & Back Down

You all know how I hate to be dramatic... heh... but folks, I'll be darned if I didn't just have the best time of my life this last weekend.  Boyfriend and I went to the wonderful land formerly known as Chicago.  I say formerly because now and forevermore it will be referred to as "That Place We Are Going Back To ASAP."  


I think I'm better at naming babies.  Whatevs.




The point is, holy cow it's a great city.  And like any great place, it's only as wonderful as the people in it.  Brett grew up with this dude Eric and they have managed to stay close for the last decade or two.  Things got even better about 7 years ago when Eric met Cristina and gave me a lady friend to laugh at our fellas with.  Thanks E.  So thoughtful.

I managed to not snap one pic of the lovely couple together.  But I got this one of Eric and I...

And just look at these two.  I heart these two.  I laugh at and with these two.  I snap sassy pics of these two.

Art.

Yeah so we went to the Museum, one of my two requests regarding the trip.  (the other request was a sit down talk about the trip we are hell bent to take in two+ years. Look for that blog post in 2015.  Ish)

This photo makes me happy.

Next years Halloween costume fo sho.

I am in love with this city.  In lerv.  Luv.  Amen.

So after we taught downtown a lesson and got a great nights sleep (well we did, E&C were on the couches.  Hospitality plus!) we decided to have hot dogs for breakfast.  Natch.

This place, called Hot Dugs, will change your life.  In good ways and bad.  

Selection.

There were 5 of us because we made our friend Scott come with us (yourwelcomescott) and we all ordered two pooches.

(Side note that reveals oh so much about me: I, for reasons unknown to me, assumed Scott and I had been friends for years.  Really.  When he finally pointed out we had, in fact been friends for two days and had not met ten years prior, as I thought, I was *SHOCKED*.  I'm amazing like that.  Oh well.  Were friends now, sucker!)

Then we cut those suckers up and shared.  So we all had two hot dugs at 1030am.  

Epic success.

And then we all had heartburn forever.

The End.

The trip to Chi Town reminded me of the simple truth; Love is enough.  Loving friends, loving travel, loving strangers, loving hot dogs, loving art...

It is really the root of  every good thing.  

So as we sail out of 2011 and rocket into 2012... I want to take love with me.  I want to be my usual, dramatic, over the top loving singing dancing me.  Because when I do, and when I am around people who live that way...

Life seems to love and sing and dance with me.

Are you ready for my list of resolutions?  Because I think you're going to be terrified/delighted to see how many of them now involve hot dogs.

be dramatic,