The Windy City

Quote of the week: 

  "Heeaath, I feel it would be in your best interest to take out the trash." -Jill

So the last few days have been great. The weather is fabulous and as Jill proclaims the city really is cleaner and nicer than NYC:) Sorry Rachel:) I say that sitting in a cafe listening to people, some who look like they have come right off the street read short stories and poetry as well as preach about their political views....hmm maybe Madison, WI will be different :P

What made the last few days great would have to be my dad coming to visit. I haven't seen him in a while and Im glad he came to visit from Guatemala (he is the crazy one sailing to South America and back). We had a nice time grabbing dinner at the Italian Village, downtown up on the third floor.  It was lovely and I got to take the chocolate mousse home, Yum! We had breakfast this morning before he had to head back home and spend some time on the east coast. 

After the visit, as I said we were to go sing some karaoke. Well in good Blumenthal fashion I cant say it went that smoothly:) When i returned Jill told me that their friend Cannon, who was supposed to be acquiring the limo for the people celebrating, was stuck in Andersonville (lesbian hangout of Chicago:) because the limo had broke down.  So we had to go bring tools and water and rescue him.  So we were off-after a quick 'nature break' of course. Sorry Cannon! :) Yeah, background on the 'Limo': Its circa 1980's, a 'classic' really, complete with a nice rusted blue and dented silver complexion, It comes complete with original 5 inch TV and hand crank sunroof (j/k). Now you ask, Why would they bother to purchase such a piece of art? Well its because it was a picture car! Yup a car used in the show "My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss". Sweet right? I know! 

  So we arrive to find Cannon in the back, alone, with a cooler of Miller High Life.  Spotting the beverage Jill and I 'rested' in the limo as the boys got to work.  Heath had to use my screw driver (thanks Jerry:) to pry open the hood...oooo so ghetto. Fitting the 2x4 just right to hold up the hood they tried their best.  They quickly returned to the back because we were told that we all had to wait for Zhenia.  Now if you ask me or Jill why we were waiting, we couldnt answer-I have no clue-but we did, for a while- We played your classic car ride games-'im going on a picnic' and 'I spy' then it quickly gravitated toward improv games and Jill's question game.  Zhenia arrives on this motorcycle and we explained the problem. Then they went to start it and the battery was dead. So they tried to jump it using the motorcycle battery-no use-we backed Jills car up to the limo and jumped it again- It started! quick close the hood and lets go! 

Everybody gets driving to drop the limo off and get to the party.  We park the limo and i ask the simple question of "hey, where is my screw driver?" "Shit, i dont know-did you check the car?" "yeah not there" "huh, um, im gonna have to guess that, yup its in the hood of the limo" "Son of a *@#$" "How do we get it out if we used it to open the damn thing in the first place?" Well thank god Heath had 3ft long crow bar lying around. Not to mention a thank god the screw driver was still in there and not dropped along the highway! Jerry would have cried at the thought of my being without tools:) 

After that we drove to the bar-i will skip the part about getting lost-im sure you can imagine it:) We finally walk up to the door to find everyone outside hugging and parting. Figures. No drinks, No singing, No Korean. But you know what? I was cool with it-Just not meant to be and besides I was a little too tired to hop up on stage and start whaling it out to Brittnay's "Im a Slave". 

So instead we took pictures of the would be karaoke experience before we headed back home to chillax. So here are some pics:

 Julia 'Jill'  Heath "Heeef"  n Jill 

 Cannon, me, Jill n Heath

Zhenia sneaking beverage

Well stay tuned...