New Year's 2011

We started the year off right with a trip to Chicago to see friends and see Pretty Lights! Neither of us had ever been there before so it was an adventure to say the least. Once we arrived in Chi-town we rode the "L" (?) train to get to Brent & Melissa's house. They are awesome and let us stay there for the weekend! The train was an experience in itself. We figured out we had about 13 stops before ours. These so called "stops" were ridiculous. You have about 5 seconds to get out the door before it takes off flying again. I was scared. Remember, we had had two luggage bags with us also. Whew. Well we finally made it to what Melissa calls hobo square or corner or something like that. And that it was. It could've also been called pigeon square. My goodness, there were dozens of them! Brent picked us up there and drove us to his house, which is so cool. They live in the bottom floor of a house and it is just so awesome. I loved it.
Jan. 30th was the first night of PL. We met up with everyone at Brent & Melissa's before the show which was at the Congress Theater. The line to get in was soooo long and you would have thought we were being searched like we were going to prison. It was serious. They were throwing everything away. Including glow sticks, i mean really? It's a good thing that DVS is amazing and it was one of the best PL shows. Spaniol had the idea to go up to the balcony to watch & it was by far the best seat in the house! After the show we basically walked all the way back to Brent's before we got a cab. I think we were in the cab for a total of maybe 3 minutes. oh well.

The next day we ate at Gino's East and it was delicious. Some of the best pizza I've ever had.

So that makes this day Jan. 31st. New Year's Eve. After we ate, the girls walked around the mall area. Everything was so pretty. All my favorite stores all in one place. After that we hailed a taxi and went back to Brent's to get ready for the big show! Everyone was in party mode and so fun. Again we were searched like criminals. We had a small mishap about getting in and past security but the night managed to go on. We ran up the stairs to the balcony to claim our spot once again. It was taken so we just moved to the other side of the balcony, no prob. We had a blast. At midnight, balloons fell from the sky and it was awesome!


Since we were with a bunch of TCU alums, we of course had to watch the Horned Frogs in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Scott somehow found a TCU bar in Chicago and we all headed there. Long story short, we had the biggest bar tab ever, Spaniol "had" to leave early & we were singing "We are the champions" at the end of the game. So. Much. Fun.



The next bar we went to was crazy. We were all having a "great" time and then my husband decided that he had an awesome idea. He thought he would be the door guard guy. He was i.d.ing everyone and wouldn't let the "boyfriends" in the door. Wow. We needed to go home.
We left the next day. Hungover and all. We rode the L again back to O'Hare. I ended up having to sit by this Funion eating chick who was on her cell phone the entire time talking about some guy that she caught cheating and beat that ho's ass. Her words, not mine. Needless to say everyone practically cheered when her stop came. We made it home safe and sound.
Chicago, IL - check. Pretty Lights for New Year's - check.