Chicago

Since college a group of us girls get together every first weekend in December to go shopping in Chicago. I missed it last year with living out of the country but this year I was excited to go. One of the girls moved to Chicago after graduating and always opens her home to those of us coming in for the weekend.

 We have battled wind and snow biting at us as we walk the streets to shop and wait for our Chicago style pizza. But this year as we left Jen's house dodging rain we were pleased to find it in the 50's in the city and little to no wind. We didn't even have rain...it drizzled a little for maybe the first hour and than nothing for the rest of the day.

 We took some time to go to the Lego store and see their displays set up. We would have gone into the store but it was packed with people and we didn't feel like fighting the crowd.

 We decided to eat some place new this year, partly because of the long wait and because I can't really eat cheese any more. We also found the German village they set up to see good food and German Christmas things. I bought some of the yummy roasted nuts for Dan and I. We than finished up our shopping and headed back to Jen's.

Dan had spent the day with friends who also live in Chicago and met back up with us when we got back to the house for dinner. We went to church in the morning, which I always enjoy. We than grabbed some lunch before heading home. On the way home we met up with one of my friends from Cambodia who is home on furlow. We ate Mexican as it was what we both craved while living there and talked about how last year on this weekend we ran a 1/2 marathon. It was great seeing her and getting to spend time together. She will go back to Cambodia in January.