Chicago Trip
posted by Robert Kotowski @ 10:08am, Monday 26 July 2010.
Brie and I went to Chicago a weekend ago, so I could use my wedding gift from Brie. Which because everyone I have told we were going did not know, she got me tickets to the Chicago Fire. We got a hotel right off Michigan Ave, which was fun to drive to. Brie ran in to check in, and I drove around the block a couple of times, trying to find the parking structure associated with the Congress Plaza Hotel. It was just labeled Park 1 never did it mention Congress Plaza. People in Chicago love to honk, if you wait to long to turn right on red they honk at you. But an hour after getting into Chicago we parked and were in the hotel. We went out to dinner at an artist cafe just up the street. The ice cream sundae was excellent.
Saturday morning we got up and tried to get on the internet to see what was in the town to do, but when a hotel in Chicago says "internet available in room" it does not mean free internet. But we really needed to know what time things opened and what attractions were where, so we bought the bullet. We ended up going to the Planetarium first and seeing a show about stars narrated by Whoopie Goldberg. After the Planetarium we were going to the Aquarium to eat and see some fish, but the line outside was at least an hour long. So we ended up going to the natural history museum and had some lunch there. At 5 we went to the soccer game. Which was Fire vs the Revolution. New England ended up winning in the last 10 minutes but it was a pretty good game. Turns out Brie got me a double header the second game was morelia vs the pumas. We did not stay for much of that game the noise maker came out and were quite annoying. We stopped by a dance event when we got back into town that was just a forty foot by forty foot dance floor that was just packed. And after a 90 degree day, everyone smelled great. So we did not stay long at all.
On Sunday morning we went for a little jog. And then decided to go see a movie that was not playing in Michigan, The Kids Are All Right. It was a pretty good movie. It was well worth the mole and a half walk we had to go to see it. When we got out of the movie it was raining pretty hard so we ended up eating lunch right next to the movie theater. When we finished lunch the sun was back out, and we headed back to our car. And were on our way back home.
Wedding License
posted by Robert Kotowski @ 9:04pm, Wednesday 9 June 2010.
So apparently getting married is a lot like getting a gun. Their is a three day waiting period for either. Yesterday I went down to the county building to get my Marriage License, and it was a pretty painless process. Had to fill out some forms and raise my right hand and swear something about marriage being awesome. Then I find out I have to come back later because they have a waiting period. Just thought that seemed a little bit funny.
Another Dexter Ann Arbor Run
posted by Robert Kotowski @ 10:08am, Monday 7 June 2010.
This year Brie and I decided to run the 10K in the Dexter Ann Arbor run. We were shooting for an hour and thirty minutes, and we were very happy when we finished with a time of one hour and seventeen minutes. We decided to run together so it was be more fun and would have someone to talk to and comment on the sometimes rediculous outfits people decided to run in. The weather was a big factor in our time because the humidity and the temperature had dropped drastically from the previous week. So it was quite pleasant to run in.
We were planning to go to taste of Ann Arbor after the run but then some very cold rain started up. So we decided to go out to breakfast with my father, who also ran in the Dexter Ann Arbor run, but in the 5K. We went to Uptown Coney Island and I had some waffles. It was a good day.