Come On Feel the Illinoize

Yes, we went to Chicago this weekend... but FIRST!

Friday night we went to an annual dinner that I have to attend for work. We tried to park here. 

Didn't work out so well.   But the dinner was tasty and the entertainment was delightful.

Saturday we made a really quick trip to Chicago to go to our friend Jenny's 30th birthday party.  She is also our neighbor by the way, which is very cool.  What else is cool? Our neighbor's husband, Tom, was a Theta Chi with Andrew.  WHAT you say? Yep, we moved into a neighborhood in South Bend where we already knew someone.  Weird.
Tom rented a condo in Chicago for Jenny's birthday so everyone who didn't live there would have a place to stay overnight.
We used it as Flippy Cup Tournament Headquarters.

We were on the team on the right.  After successfully losing 4 or 5 rounds in a row, it was almost time to head to the bar.  Our team said, "One more round. Winner take all."  They agreed.  Boy were they sorry...

This is half our team celebrating our victory.  YEAH! We won! (Well... when it was important at least.)







Here are Tom and Jenny facing off...

Quite an intense match-up. 

After our sweet sweet victory, Jenny wanted a group picture.  One of the girls had a timer on her camera so she set it up to take.  Well I wanted one too so I ran and set my camera up at the last sentence and screamed for everyone to hit their marks again.  AAAHHHH HURRAY!!

AAAHHHH! Everyone thought it would be fun to scream along with me.  So hopefully that explains why everyone is either screaming or laughing.  It turned out to be a much more exciting picture.

We finally were all set to leave and walk to the bar that Tom's sister picked out for the end of night ingurgitation (did you know that was a word?).
We had reserved booths when we got there.

We all remarked how cool it was to be able to walk into a crowded bar and fill up two booths.  Something we were never able to do earlier in our twenties.  We're old.


The rest of the night was very enjoyable.

Miley stopped by for a visit...

...through the TVs.  They played all kinds of music that was technocized (I made that word up) and had HEAVY bass.  Then they played what we thought was the actual video on all the TVs but then learned quickly it was NOT since we saw naked people here and there spliced in Fight Club style.  Weird.
Anyway, Jenny had a great birthday and we were glad to be a part of it.  Congrats on the big 3-0, Jenny!