days fourteen and fifteen

we woke up sunday morning with sunlight pouring into greg's 52nd floor apartment. he has a perfect view of lake michigan and chicago's skyline. we looked on in awe, then got our day going.

the sears tower was our first stop. the line was long, and some idiot employee tried to get us to go to the 99th floor instead of the skydeck, which was on the 103rd floor. we did not pay skydeck prices to see the 99th floor, so we stuck with it. the wait was well worth it. greg's apartment view, while stunning, limited us to about a 120 degree slice of chicago. the full 360 degrees was stunning.

side note - the elevator ride features a little cartoon of two birds spouting off facts about the tower with speech liberally peppered with bird-like puns. the cartoon itself wasn't all that entertaining, but we entertained ourselves making fun of it, so in a roundabout way, it served its purpose.

we headed back down and met up with chris chiego at giordano's. he was in town to read for a high school quiz bowl tournament. we talked about that for a bit, we discussed his visit to weirdo enclave deep springs college, then we parted ways. gabe "where's unlv" shaukat, wade "i pay for the coolness factor" wisdom, and i headed to see indiana jones 4. altogether entertaining, but a bit more ridiculous than indy generally gets. my low expectations were exceeded, though.

that night, greg took us out (on a sunday - odd for three southern boys) to a number of places. we had a great time, drank plenty of beers, and developed some indigestion at Mitchell's, which is basically an overpriced version of athens's grill with worse fries. and no feta dressing. we hit the hay hard.

the next morning, we woke up late and headed to wrigleyville to acquire cubs tickets. we got three "limited visibility" seats and hit the stadium for the cubs-dodgers memorial day matchup. it was a really good game to watch, and the cubs came out on top 3-1. we were in high spirits as we hit the road to kansas city. we reached steve and karen wisdom's place at about 1:30am, where we slept soundly.

here's to greg cavitt and the cubbies.