RIGHT!
And it's been awesome, amazing, spectacular, and really, really great so far.
Thank you.
First up, we wanna thank Bobby & Kim, & Ricky for having us in SoCal, and for the excellent times we had. We're only regretting not taking Winston on our honeymoon a little bit. We really liked all the sushi, seeing KSHMR, Mimosa brunch, breweries, Bobby's Tacolicous cooking and chilling with Ferrari and Darren and Newport Beach adventures!
P.S. We miss Winston (Bobby & Kim's Dog).
Right now we're sitting in our honeymoon suite in Glenwood Springs, it's snowing, and we're about to go chill out in the Hot Springs. HI THURSDAY!
There have been some ups and downs, but mostly ups. Downs include: ... well... not much, actually. It's been a little hot? I guess? And some other Non-honeymoon stuff that bares no mentioning here in Honeymoon town!
So, here's the ups so far, day by day.
Day 1, Badass Honeymoon Train-Trip
We did it! We survived LA with Ricky, and Irvine with Bobby & Kim, and it was spectacular! We left from LAX to Chicago on our flight and we were ready to start our Chicago to San Francisco Badass Train-Trippin' Honeymoon!
We arrived at the airport and were lucky enough to have some lounge passes so that we could go into the United Airlines Lounge, which was pretty awesome! We had a few drinks there while organizing things that needed organizing and Conor had an amazing salad. It was at this point we realized that our red-eye flight to Chicago was actually only 3 hours and 45 minutes. We were a bit bummed that we weren't going to be able to get any real sleep on the flight but decided it would be alright anyway.
We ended up getting into Chicago at about 5am, almost an hour early, and took an Uber straight to our hotel. We got to our hotel around 6am, and by the luck of honeymoon, or maybe chance, we were allowed to check in!
We took a nap, and got a call from reception that a new room was ready for us with a lake view! We switched our rooms, checked out our new view and started our journey into Chicago!
We left our hotel and started walking down towards the river and started marveling at the amazing architecture in Chicago, it was simply amazing. We walked down and checked out The Bean, Millennium Park, and the fountain at the beginning of Married with Children. We loved everything so far, but would downtown Chicago hold up to our expectations?
We started walking downtown, and from a recommendation from Kim, decided we needed to find some Garrett Popcorn, which was absolutely worth the mini-journey, and delicious. We walked a bit further and went into the Burlington Coat Factory (one of Conor's favorites) and bought a scarf for the chilly Chicago weather. We kept walking up and saw the Chicago sign, which we were both pretty excited for. We crossed the river going back to the north side, and pointed out some apartments we thought might be amazing to live in, (We ended up finding rents on the 46th floor with a balcony as low as $1,400, which, coming from San Francisco, was a pretty welcome change).
We left from there, and after deciding that 20 minutes wasn't enough time to make it to the stadium to see a Chicago Bulls game, went to Lou Malnati's for pizza (Thanks to Bobby for the recommendation!). For the first time in our lives, deep dish won. Seriously, this place was absolutely amazing. Definitely worth checking out.
As we walked back from Lou's we tried to find somewhere that might know something about Australia day celebrations the next day, generally didn't find anything, other than some friendly people that were more than willing to make a few searches for us.
After that we walked up The Magnificent Mile and checked out all the schmancy shops and the Old Chicago Water Tower. At that point, it was snowing pretty hard, and we decided to go into the Hancock Building to go up to the bar on the 96th floor!After the security guard finished gossiping/loving Ryan's colorful hat, we went up for a drink, and saw an insane snowstorm hitting us on the 96th floor, it was perfect!
On our way out we found a Cupcake ATM, and figured, why not? So after our cupcake vending mach-I mean, ATM, we finally went down and went to the Viagra Triangle area (Rush Street) and had a quick drink at an Irish Bar. Pretty sweet, but we didn't really get a feel for why it was called the Viagra Triangle, which, honestly, was probably a good thing.
After a quick walk back home, we decided to search for a "Chicago"-movie to watch, and ended on the Dark Knight, which was really cool to see all the same buildings we had just explored. And for the end of the night, well, its our honeymoon, so give us some privacy already!
More posts to come soon.
Probably.
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