Yesterday after spending the entire day in line at the Willis Tower we jumped on the train and headed to US Cellular Field for the White Sox – Indians game. Despite being close to 90 degrees most of the evening the wind inside the stadium made everything comfortable.
It was hard to miss a chance to see a Cleveland team lose.
This weekend Julie and I had family in town so we decided to take the opportunity to check out the Sears Willis Tower Skydeck. The views were very unique, I kind of wonder why the Skyboxes aren’t other side of the building but either way it was pretty cool. I’d highly recommend anyone going to visit to spend the extra $10 and buy the ‘Fast Pass’ as we waited in line for more than 2 hours. When it was all said and done I’m pretty sure we got in line around 1:45pm and didn’t leave the building until about 5pm. There was even a line to go back down.
One of the more interesting things we could see was Lollapalooza in Grant Park. We could see a large mass of people near the north part of the park which would have been the Arctic Monkeys at the Budwiser Stage. After the last two years (2007 day 1, day 2, day 3, and 2008) I’m glad to have missed Lollapalooza this year. Like clockwork this was also the hottest weekend in Chicago.
After attending my first Roller Derby on Saturday I decided to go a different route for Sunday. Julie had bought tickets to this dinner party series that is being run by Top Chef season four winner, Stephanie Izard called the The Wandering Goat. It’s kind of like a dry run of the restaurant she will be opening called The Drunken Goat. The dinner took place in the West Loop at the house and backyard of one of Stephanie’s friends. The theme was Three Floyds Beer & Meat. I didn’t really get the theme as here’s what we ate:
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