We're bloggers!

Landon and I have decided to start a blog of our adventures in Chicago!  It's mostly going to be just a journal for us to remember all the neat places we've seen and been, but thought our family and friends may want to follow along and read about what all we're up to!

view from our rooftop

This was our first weekend in the Windy City together and it was busy, fun-filled one for sure!  We started off our weekend with dinner at a little Italian place called Sapori Trattoria.  We were craving Italian and were looking up places online, but after calling a few to make a reservation without any luck (unless we wanted to eat around midnight) we found this little gem and made a reservation for 8:15.  When we arrived at 8:15, the manager told us it was going to be at least 15 minutes and treated us to a glass of wine for the wait!  I'll wait 15 minutes for a free glass of wine any day!  After bruschetta with avocado and a bowl of butternut squash soup, we split a delicious pasta dish covered in artichoke, sun dried tomatoes, chicken and a tasty cream sauce, and still had some to bring home (which I'm sure I'll be eating for lunch today).

After dinner we went to a place right next to our apartment building called Tavern at the Park for a drink.  I had a concoction of cucumber vodka, ginger syrup, muddled watermelon and mint, and Landon's was honey, elderflower liqueur, lavender water and vodka .... talk about some tasty treats!

Saturday morning, after dropping Charlie off at the groomer, we headed over to Kanela for brunch.  Landon had some multigrain pancakes and I had a lorraine scramble with the best breakfast potatoes I'd ever had.  Some super strong coffee made this brunch even more amazing.

After brunch, and driving around trying to find a parking spot for half an hour, we went to a farmer's market, well 2 of them.  At the first one, we just walked around, bought some raspberries, which we nearly finished in the car and enjoyed the wonderful weather. They were even handing out free Starbucks coffee!  Yes please!  The next farmer's market was really neat.  It was in the middle of Lincoln Park and had tents set up with local vendors selling all sorts of fruits, veggies and flowers.  We bought some blueberries and grapes at this one.

These may look like ordinary grapes, but they are far from it!  I don't even know how to describe how delish they are.  They're just so perfectly crunchy and sweet.  I'm finishing these off as I write, while Landon polishes off the blueberries.   After purchasing these tasty little fruits, we decided to plop down in the middle of the park (as many others had done as well) and sit and enjoy them in the sunshine.   Finally the groomer called and it was time to go pick up our Charlie boy.  She had called earlier to warn me they had to cut him a lot shorter than we were wanting because he was pretty matted.  He looks a little silly, but we still love our handsome boy.



 






Saturday night, we went to the  Texas A&M alumni bar (since the UTA bar was too crowded - ha) to watch the game.  They had designated the upstairs area to be the A&M watching area and there were about 100 A&M grads there.  It was nice to be around other Texans!

Well, there ya have it, our first weekend in Chi Town!  So much to do here in such little time, but we're going to try and get in as much as we can while we're here.  We're going to try and not frequent the same restaurant more than once, since we're surrounded by SO much good food, hence all the food talk/pictures.

Come visit us!

...... and happy fall!!