Livin La Vida Lindsey: Girls Trip!!!

So, I know I have been terrible lately about posting. I was going to post about going to the Dave Matthews concert on September 11th, but I was waiting on Amber to send me the pictures she took there. I still haven't gotten those. I will post them when I do. We had a great time, though. It was the first time I actually sat in seats at Super Pages/Smirnoff/Starplex, whatever the heck that place is called these days. It was a lot different than sitting on the lawn. It was nice to have a little more personal space. :) It also didn't end up raining like we were expecting which was nice. He played my favorite song of all time too- Lie in Our Graves!! I am obsessed with that song. I still remember listening to it in Heather's old Mustang hanging outside of Jared's house in high school! Too funny! I also remember listening to it at the pool overlooking the ocean in Cabo when I went with my family in college. I told Koy that he has to play that for me on the beach at some point in our lives or we are over! : ) Ha ha!

Anyway, on to the current point of my post. I went with 5 of my very best girl friends from college to Chicago last weekend. I had never been before, and we had a blast!! We got there on Thursday and left on Sunday, but it was definitely not enough time to do everything we wanted to. Thursday night we went to dinner at a place called Hub 51 which my cousin later informed me is one of the "it" spots right now. We just went there because a door man at another restaurant told us to check it out. Their food and drinks were pretty good, and they played awesome music! They had a fun little lounge/dance club downstairs as well where we had some more drinks. Then on Friday, we had lunch at Millennium Park and checked out the different sculptures and stuff and met my cousin for a bit. He just moved there with his GF recently, so it was nice to catch up with him a little. Then we went to the Navy Pier and sat out on the water. It was sunny and gorgeous! The only hiccup there was when Nicole got pooped on by a bird. It was disgusting but pretty funny at the same time. Poor Nicole! Lea got in town that night, and we went to a really good Italian place called Carmines for dinner. I had amazing lasagna! I don't remember the last time I had pasta before that. It was definitely worth it!

Navy Pier

The Bean in Millennium Park

Then, Saturday we went to the Cubs game, which was so much fun! I didn't realize how old and small Wrigley Field is. It was so cool! There really wasn't a bad seat in the place. Our seats, however, were shaded and it was so cold, so we decided to take over some hopefully empty seats out in the sun. It was much better in the sun! We enjoyed some beers and great baseball food like pretzels, hot dogs, and nachos. We left a little early since it was still pretty cold and headed over to a sports bar across the street. When the game was over, the big TV screen raised up to reveal a DJ and the place turned into a hard core dance party at 3:00 in the afternoon. It was awesome!!! We forced ourselves to leave after a little while, though, and head back downtown. That night we went on a night-time boat tour of the harbor. It was really pretty and we met some people who went to high school with Tony Romo! Pretty funny. Afterwards, we wait for over 2 hours for some famous Chicago deep dish pizza at Giordano's. From what I remember, it was definitely worth the wait! A few of us had to leave on Sunday in the early afternoon so we didn't have time to do any sightseeing before we left. We didn't have time to do everything we wanted to do like the architecture tour or go shopping, so I guess that just means we will just have to go again sometime soon. Now on to planning our next girls trip!!