Chicago Day 3

Sorry this is taking so long to get out. I've had limited time and Internet access. Anyway, onto the information:

On Tuesday we decided, since we weren't seeing any shows, that it was the perfect day to explore Chicago and visit some vintage shops. So we looked up directions, picked our El route and then headed out around 11. We went up North to Belmont. It's near Lakeview. We found one shop that had cheap clothes and I found an awesome pair of boots for $5, and a wallet. After that we found a cute bakery that made incredible pastries, and everyone got a little something to eat.

We realized belatedly that we were travelling in the opposite direction of all the stores we wanted, so we turned around and found the right street to shop on. We found some awesome vintage stores on Belmont (the other side) where I bought some presents, and the girls found some cheap dresses and cowboy boots. We wandered a little more and ended up on Clark street which actually took us back to where we had been the day before!

We went to a restaurant called Lucky's where they serve huge sandwiches. They actually have a contest where a person picks 3 of their sandwiches off the menu and has to eat them all in under an hour. I thought my dad would enjoy that. So each half of these sandwiches are about the size of my head, and there are people on their wall of fame that have finished them all in 5 minutes! I don't know how that's possible.

I actually had Terriyaki wings, and they were amazing. The girls also enjoyed their lunches. Katie Mac got buffalo tenders, thinking they were buffalo meat...instead of really spicy. She didn't enjoy her's so much. But Katie ate her entire sandwich. She deserved a round of applause.

We looked at another vintage store down the street, but weren't very successful. We refound the book store where we had bought some scripts the day before and we looked around a little more.We didn't find anything else there either, so we decided to move on. We wanted to head over to find Broadway street, where there was supposed to be more used book stores and vintage clothing. It took us a while to find it, but when we did Katie Mac was excited to see a Buffalo Exchange, which is apparently a chain that they have in Denver, where she's from. We spent over an hour trying on clothes and all the girls found something they liked. We also tried out the other books stores. One ended up being a new store so we didn't stay long. In the other I found an awesome monologue book and a script, and Kaitie found a good vegetarian cookbook.

We were extremely exhausted from the day of walking and clothes trying, but we took the El down to China Town to meet Melissa's friend Sean. He goes to De Paul University in Chicago as a Theatre Tech major, and so he had a lot to tell us. We searched for a sushi place in China Town, but the one we wanted was closed, so we picked a random restaurant to eat at, and it ended up being very good. We asked Sean a lot of questions, but he didn't have much to say about Chicago because he's so busy with theatre. But it was interesting to hear about another student's life in theatre at a different school. He gets to do a lot of outside professional work, which is cool. We don't have that option or opportunity at our school really, but it seems most Chicago Universities do that sort of thing. They allow their students to work professionally while at school because there are so many opportunities so close. We stopped at a Sanrio store for Katie Mac so she could look around and we ended up purchasing some cool China Town trinkets. I bought a headband--very cultural, I know.

We took the El back to our hostel and called it an early night. All the girls had found great purchases. I had an awesome pair of boots, but no dress. We were all trying to find dresses for our upcoming summer auditions. I had to keep looking. This was definitely the most exhausting day of our trip, by far.