7.17.2008

ChiTown 002

Last night we went to La Scarola on the recommendation of some of Matt's friends who live here.

OH. MY. GAWD. It was so good. I wanted to wrap up the waiter (and the brushetta) in my pocket and take them both home.

If you can make out the photo right over my head, it's Johnny Depp with the owners. He was there last week while he was in town filming a movie. Le Sigh. If only we were here last week!

Oh well. The Pasta Lorenzo more than made up for it.

We then went and listened to some jazz because, well, you can't come to Chicago and NOT hear jazz.

Fabulous as well. My ONLY complaint is that, as Amanda pointed out, it's been pretty warm here and after 5 straight days of 105+ in Fresno, we were looking for relief. But no matter. At least we can walk everywhere!

Today we walked over to Sayat Nova on my lunch break and that was great as well. I was a little disappointed to hear that we wouldn't be able to make it out there while they had the DJ spinning hip-hop Armenian music, but I'll live ;).

I did a bit of knitting in the hotel lobby bar during happy hour this afternoon:


Got some funny looks but no matter. My conference is now officially over so I'm on vaction mode.

7.16.2008

ChiTown 001



So far, so good!

7.14.2008

Done!

Well folks, I did it:



Comment #1500 too, which is sort of cool. I'm jumping on board with Julie and will be attempting to knit the Gathered Pullover, using Knit Picks Andean Treasure (stash-busting! Woo!)

So now I'm daring the rest of you to do it. No pain, no gain!


I'm off to Chicago this week for a conference/a couple days of play. There may or may not be movement on this blog.