A Taste Of Spring

I thoroughly enjoyed a taste of spring this past weekend with the weather getting up to 60 degrees and probably about 95% of the snow melting. Friday night consisted of our ever popular panino night, a new hair cut (which is starting to grow on me, no pun intended), and finished off by yet another trip to Margie’s Candies. Cait and Giselle found a new little grocery store in Bucktown called Olivia’s Market which just so happen to have Giselle’s favorite mustard, Honeycup! They bought some excellent deli meat and a spread of other sandwich ingredients for us to create our individual panini. After dinner, I headed out to get my haircut. It’s a full blown mohawk which even I was not anticipating, but I sort of like it now and I think I’ll stick with it for the time being. I meet up with everyone again after my haircut at Margie’s to indulge in Grandpa’s Turtle. Cait and I split on this time which ended up being the perfect amount for both of us. This has become our standard Friday night.

Saturday was beautiful outside. It was sunny and warm with a slight breeze and everyone was out enjoying the weather. Cait and I decided to tagalong with Mike and Giselle to visit a few of their potential wedding venues. We drove all over Chicago to stop at the 63rd Street Beach House, The Harold Washington Library, and the Architectural Artifacts Atrium. It was like we were tourist in our own city. All the places were very unique in their own way. By far my favorite was the Architectural Artifacts Atrium because of all the neat stuff they had their. I'll have to make another blog post with just the pictures.

Mike and I had a basketball game with Tom in the early afternoon. We had been undefeated up until this point. Unfortunately we got blown out pretty ridiculously and even worse, Tom got jacked in the lip and bleed pretty significantly causing him to sit the rest of the game out.

After showering up and waiting for Cait and Giselle to finish up their mani/pedi appointments we decided to eat at our favorite Mexican restaraunt, Pancho Pistolas. We all indulged in nachos and steak tacos. Cait and I wanted to go see Coraline afterwards, but we were both tired and decided to spend the night in, which eventually turned into a Back To The Future marathon because we ended up watching all three movies over the remainder of the weekend.

This has ignited our mission to watch (and re-watch) all of our favorite 80's and 90's movies.

Overall this past weekend was just a taste of things to come this year. The weather was a reminder that spring is on the way even though I know it's going to go back to below freezing soon enough.