Haha ok so beare with me because I'm still drunk right now since I just got home. haha ok so here we go...

Ok so we took the train downtown and hopped on the brown line and we were both hungry so I suggested the Twisted Spoke and we went there. Its on Clark St. I'd say about 3400 N. Clark. So while there we got dinner, Me a foot long twisted weiner(hot dog) and Sean a Buffalo Chicken Sandwich. We also got some super awsome tasty dirnks. I got super sour pusses, 3 of them. Its just a vodka lemonade with pucker in it. YUJMMMMM> Sean got fresh squeezed Screwdrivers. So I was watching the Cubs and damned them they were losing.

Then we were done and walked towards Wrigleyfiled and turned to Halsted and walked over ther. WE walked and saw everything and then I lfet the decison up to Sean where to go. WE went to Roscoes on, get this, Roscoe and Halsted. Let me just say that place ROCKED!!! They had specials on pitchers of apple martinis and we got 2. I was so drunk. I watched the end of the Cubs game and I was so happy when they won. The rest of the time it was funky dance music videos, inlcuding its raining men by Geri Halliwell or whatever you know the ex spice girl.!.!.! and LOTS of Madonna. So yea fun times. I got a necklace of a plastic DeKupers bottle with a pen in it and I had to go Pee like SUPER bad after we left. I was like in pain the whole EL back and then the walk to Union Staion. Then I got on the train, into the train bathroom and WOW did that feel good. What a relief!

So I thought Sean missed the train. But he totally didn't. I called him after it left and he made it then came back to meet me and we then got home and I typed this. YAY

Well these are the first photos from Arizona i've scanned in and edited. My desktop is on the fritz right now due to naughty scsi drives. Editing photos on a laptop is nearly impossible so if this isn't perfect forgive me, I'm used to editing on a nice 24" widescreen not a tiny 13.3" widescreen :(.

Ok by this time I think all of you have seen that commercial for the KFC bowl dealy. It is basically a crime against humanity. Start with mashed potatoes, add chicken fingers, add corn, add cheese and top it off with gravy. Sounds like a horror to me. So my question is how many of you would eat this bowl of doom unaltered and what would it take for you to eat it?

On Friday the 14th I went to the Cubs game with my pal Brett. We picked up some bleacher seats on good ole eBay for about face price. Thats a hot deal for sure for bleacher seats. It was a great time even though they lost. Well as soon as we bought the tickets Brett got 4 tickets for Sundays game so I also went to that game. All was going well until the 6th inning. The cubs were up 5-2 and then the bases got loaded and a grand slam was hit. Then Dumbass Baker finally switched pitchers for their basically worst reliever. Fine so he walks the bases loaded again. Douchey Baker leaves the bum in and guess what, another grand slam. So it wasn't done yet. Now they didn't even take that idiot pitcher out. I guess it didn't matter since now the cubs were down by 5. So he gives up another home run, this time only a 2 run shot. All told the half inning took 41 minutes which is ungodly. We left before the half inning was even over we were all so disgusted. I have also resolved to not go to another cubs game this year til they fire the damn coaches. I'll see how long I stick to that.

Ok so I know I don't live in Chicago but still, sometimes I think Chicago is a state of mind just as much as a place. So yup no blog post for Sunday the last day of the vacation. It was even more boring than the day before. More swimming and some shopping blah. We left on Monday very early and drove from Scottsdale to Tucson. Our flight was about an hour late in all which sucked but it could have been worse.

Today I had to work at 10:30, which normally isn't so bad. Well it was worse than normal today since i'm used to Arizona time and to me getting up at 9:45 felt like 7:45. But work went by fairly quickly and I survived so I guess its not all that bad, I mean hell it was holiday pay. Its amazing how work is so much more tolerable when you are getting $15 an hour ;)

I didn't end up taking as many pictures on vacation as I wanted but I still have some 12 rolls of film to be developed. I believe it works out to about just shy of 200 total pictures. It will take a while for me to get them all back since I am mailing most of them out of town to get processesed. Then I have to scan all the film in, which is another tedious process. But eventually you will all get to see a selection of vacation photos. Til then ciao!

So today I woke up at the late time of 9:30, how sad is that? I'm not used to getting up early like this, but the time difference of two hours has helped to ease that pain somewhat. So today I got up to my sister getting ready to leave for the pool and I rushed up and got dressed to go and we went on down. Rather than going straight into the pool we got breakfast. $6 for a bowl of cheerios with some cut up bananas and $7 for a glass of orange juice! Nuts eh? I guess thats what you get for having breakfast at a 5 star hotel. So we went swimming them for a couple of hours.

After that we basically spent the rest of the day running around to different stores and malls to see things people wanted to see. We went to my favorite bookstore that they have here. Its called Bookmans. I love this place so much. Its about the size of a regular Barnes and Nobles, and they sell all used books, movies, cds, magazines and video/computer games. Its a very sweet store. I didn't get anything at this one but picked up some sweet magazines at the ones I went to in Tucson earlier. So all in all a pretty boring and uneventful day.

Today we were woken up early, 8am, to drive up to Sedona for the day. Sedona is about 2 hours or so north of Phoenix. Sedona is a very pretty smaller town, its very earthy and artsy. Not only that though there are tons of beautiful red rocks around the area.

There has been a big forest fire burning just north of Sedona in the mountians that finally was brought under control a couple a days ago. We drove up the newly reopened high way and saw the burn scars. Suprisingly there wasn't all that much.

We had dinner at our favorite restraunt in Sedona this evening before coming home. Its this really nice family owned Italian restraunt. Now I know this may sound like heresy but they actually make my favorite pizza i've ever had. My sister got ravioli with a mixture of alfredo and marinara sauce and wow was it good.

So then driving home we stopped at this certain rest area because you could see another forest first that was just started yesterday. So these new forest fires were burning pretty well and we were watching them off in the distance from the rest stop. The darker it was getting the easier to see them it was. While we were there the winds were kicking up and a storm was brewing behind us. This fanned the flames and they were growing large. This could shut down that highway pretty soon.