Last Thursday I went to Chicago for four glorious days of friends, fun and not-giving-a-damn. The punishment for taking a few vacation days of course is now I’m really under the gun at work, which is why I haven’t written this post till now. That’s also why it’ll be pretty short.  But here’s the highlights!

• Hung out with my childhood friend and good buddy Evan of The Sapiens Thursday night. Had an awesome German dinner where we each drank two liters of beer out of a glass boot so large that we had to put a deposit down on it.
• Reaffirmed that Mexican bakeries are the greatest thing ever, by getting some seriously tasty pastries at roughly 3:30 AM for dirt cheap.
• Got over my first hangover by staring at aquatic life at the Shed. I love that place. It was kind of nice to go by myself for once and just stare at whatever I wanted.
• Rested my legs after the aquarium by taking in a couple shows at the Adler planetarium. I hadn’t been there since I was a little kid, so it was pretty cool to go back and take it easy.
• Met some great people my college buddy Chris works with at Sears. They do some surprisingly cool work over there. It may be fairly different industries, but it was amusing to see how similar my job is to some of the people that I met there.
• Epic Saturday involving car shuffling, relaxing, meeting more new people, lots of beer to celebrate the unofficially-official St. Patty’s Day, cab rides to Wrigley and clubbing.
• Meeting up with my old coworkers from Crowe. In some ways this was the highlight of the trip and it made me realize that if there was anything at all I missed about that life it was that handful of people that I met up with in Chicago.
• Sunday spent recuperating, more car shuffling and one of the best gyros I’ve ever had (outside of Detroit’s Greektown that is).

Chicago is a fantastic city with tons of stuff going on. In many ways it’s my favorite city in the US. But despite that, it isn’t home. I seem to be one of the lucky (unlucky?) ones who can appreciate Detroit for what it is, and am comfortable and happy here. Still, I love visiting Chicago and there’s no question I’ll be back in a few months.