Another Chi-Town Weekend

Actually I'm still in Chicago and won't be back to California until tomorrow night. But since I'm waiting for Boyfriend to come back from work, I figured I'd do a little updating. So boyfriend flew me out for the weekend again, which made me super happy because it's nice to know he misses me enough that he'd fly me out after seeing me last week. The last times I've been out here I usually stay in the city but this time I stayed out in the suburbs since we were planning on furniture shopping and what-not anyway. I was kind of glad because it put me back in the feel of our usual weekends... getting up, getting coffee, running errands, dinner with the fam. All stuff we usually did when he lived back home. So Friday morning my oldest friend, CJ (we've known each other for 20 years!) picked me up and we went to breakfast and a breakfast fav, Sugar Shack in downtown HB. Pretty simple in regards to the food, but always a fav. Sat in the patio and had plenty of girl talk. Then she dropped me off at the airport. The flight was quite interesting to say the least. Usually I don't talk to the people I sit by but the girl in the window seat started the conversation. She's from Chicago visiting and the guy in the middle was from Orange County going to Denver (That was my layover). She was a teen youth pastor and the guy owns a few sports bar and works in vegetation which was the reason for his trip to Denver. After an hour or so of conversation, we found out what he meant by vegetation. The girl asked what he grew and after some hesitation, he let us in on the fact he legally grows weed. You never know who you'll meet on a place... But they were both really nice and had interesting stories to tell. Came in late on Friday night and boyfriend picked me up and off we were to the suburbs. Since I came in late we didn't do too much but I got excited upon seeing a White Castle and begged him to let me stop there to try it. It wasn't too bad. Had the typical burgers and the pulled-pork sandwich that was a little too heavy on the bbq sauce but not horrible. Still can't beat in-n-out. Oh well. Then on Saturday morning, boyfriend and I tried Caribou Coffee which is a chain here. I had some sort of dark chocolate turtle mocha which was heavy sugared. I had my choice of chocolate (white, milk or dark) and went with dark thinking somehow it would be the best type of chocolate to get - the healthier kind? I guess thinking about it at that point it shouldn't matter. But it doesn't seem too bad when I checked the nutrition facts. Anywho, after my sugar intake we started our furniture shopping. Found nothing. The best was IKEA. So sad. After, we took a trip to target and then went to rest at the hotel before dinner with the Fam bam. Then we took his cousin and his gf to the city and got some drinks.
Boyfriend and I...
Boyfriend's cousin and his GF.

We definitely had a great time and I enjoyed getting to know them better since I'm sure I'll be seeing them a lot more now. We got back to the hotel just after 3am and then with daylight savings and all, didn't wake up until noon on Sunday. Then we went to Wildberry for pancakes. It was soo crowded but we waited anyway and it was totally worth it. I do love my breakfast. Nothing super fancy or pretentious so that was nice. Then we continued our furniture search. It was a bit better and I think we've found our options but now we just need to hope everything works out. Then we went to BestBuy and I somehow decided to get a netbook since I've been traveling so much and I hate lugging around my notebook when I'm trying to travel light. I'm gonna keep thinking about it, but it was a good deal and I think I'll end up keeping it. It's my refund present to myself =) But I could use it for shoes instead. =) Then we went to sushi station for dinner and it was ok. I've kind of noticed in the suburbs, asian food isn't too good. There were a lot of people there and prices didn't seem that cheap so you'd think the fish would have been better but it was only ok. Oh and the night before we had asian fusion. It was owned by asian people so you'd think they'd understand how to make asian food... but sadly no. Anywho, it's not like home has a ton of great places either. So the apartment didn't really end up working out. Landlord never mentioned a move-in fee and after he saw boyfriend's credit score, he suddenly mentioned one. Can't be sure there's a correlation but luckily we weren't completely in love with it enough to not walk away. Seems silly since boyfriend travels so much to pay for something he won't really get to enjoy every day. So back to the hunt it is. Too bad. Well I'm back to California tomorrow so perhaps more to post then.