My Days Off
My Sunday started with a trip to Marshall’s to continue my quest for Madden Girl Shoes. I feel that I should mention that the brown pair I bought on Friday fell to pieces on the first two hours of wearing. Very disappointing. But I still have high hopes for the others so I headed down the road to see the selection. I bought two pair of heels-one pink and one black and white pair.
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John and I had a gift certificate from a hotel that expired on Sunday so we asked Jenny to take Lilo for the night and we headed to the Hampton Inn and Suites. We were going to enjoy a night away from the clutter of our lives and play tourist for a night.
We get to the hotel and check out our living situation. Our room had a kitchen, living room, bedroom and bathroom. I was thinking about picking up some wine and a thorough examination of the kitchen supplies turned up a bottle opener but no cork screw. Perfect excuse for a trip to Marshall’s for a corkscrew and since we were already there, why not look for more shoes? We got a corkscrew, a Transformer Action figure and I finally had the moment of clarity that this new shoe obsession was just a phase so I should stop buying them. We wondered our way up to Michigan Avenue and then to Water Tower. In the rain. We debated where to eat-bouncing back and forth between the multitude of restaurants that the city had to offer. In the rain. Every place we walked by was crawling with tourists, conventioneers and screaming, spoiled children. We finally decided on Pizzeria Uno to go and some wine and cheese from Trader Joe’s. When we shoved our way to the host stand at the pizza place we found out the wait for a pizza was an hour. Screw that. An hour wait and $30 or go to the Jewel across the street and pick up a Tombstone Pizza and some breadsticks-$7! We could cook it in the kitchen and relax in the comfort of the room. Brilliant!
We soggily, yet triumphantly get back to the room loaded with our make at home meal. And realize that our kitchen has a stove top, but not an oven! What’s that about? So now starving and soaked we head back out into the world and settle on Rock Bottom Brewery. My first Irish Red hits my empty stomach and I become a bit giddy. By the second I am in bliss and totally thrilled for our meal.
My favorite part of being in a couple is you can make the other person in the relationship share their food with you. And at Rock Bottom our server guessed what we were doing so when the food arrived it was on four plates. We each got two plates with two sides and the burgers cut in half. Brilliant! Not only did we not have to divide and cut and sort, in the end we got double the sides. Which was pretty awesome because Irish Red or no Irish Red-those were the best onion rings I have ever had.
We went to sleep around 2am and I woke up at 5:30am and could not go back to sleep. At 8:45am John woke up so we went to breakfast and then I was able to nap for about an hour and a half before check out. But the lack of sleep left me feeling like I was underwater for most of the day. We picked up Lilo who was not pleased with being left for the night. She was happy to see us, but once we were in the car she moped in the back-making it clear that not being included in our night out was not acceptable to her. It’s been raining all day so we couldn’t take her anywhere fun to make up for it. Instead I played Boogie Bunnies and then napped again. I still don’t feel like I have had enough sleep. Now I am watching Into the Wild and trying to muster the energy to cook our meals for the next few days. So far all I could manage for dinner tonight was some Garretts popcorn-the cheese and caramel mix. It’s not looking good for lunch tomorrow, people.
