This past weekend, we visited my best girl friend in Chicago. She moved there about a year ago, so it was time to go see her new digs. It was a short trip, just Friday-Sunday, but we had a great time. We walked (A LOT!) around the city, took a boat tour, walked around Michigan Ave, went to Navy Pier, ate at a bunch of great restaurants and saw the comedy show at The Second City. The weather was also quite pleasant. When we arrived it is around 80 degrees, which was a bit warm in the cab, but otherwise wasn't bad. Then the other 2 days it was cloudy and rained off and on. The overcast skies made it nice and cool to walk around the city. And we seemed to get pretty lucky with the rain; we would just happen to go into a store or a restaurant right before it poured.
I really enjoyed Chicago. I thought it was great mix of Denver and New York. It's definitely large and busy, but seemed a lot cleaner, less crowded and safer than NYC (at least in the area we were in). Also it's not overflowing with crappy souvenir shops and other tourist traps like NYC. Chicago certainly had it's fair share of tourists, but it was nice that the city didn't seem to pimp itself out to them. But clearly, the best part was spending 3 days with Marisa. We always have such a great time together and it was nice to devote some actual time together. I was glad we were both able to take some time off and have some fun in Chicago!
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