I normally post my week in review on Friday, but didn’t have the chance with the holidays this past week. This year, I spent Thanksgiving up north with Kevin and his family, in the land of delicious Chicago food 🙂
Over the course of our long weekend (Wednesday to Sunday), we ate at two different Portillo’s locations (Italian beef on the first visit, and a “tame” Chicago hot dog on the second), a delicious Thanksgiving dinner at Jimmy’s Charhouse (Libertyville), and Lou Malnati’s pizza for dinner on our last night.
I’m really spoiled that Kevin is from a place with delicious, amazing food.
We spent Friday at the Brookfield Zoo, and practically had the place to ourselves. I guess the zoo isn’t the most popular attraction in 40 degree, drizzly Chicago weather. But that meant that we got to see the baby snow leopards, dolphins, wombat, echidnas, meerkats, and many, many other animals with zero crowds and lots of interest (from the animals). I made friends with a sea lion 🙂
I also got a moldarama 😀 basically, it is a cheap, injection-molded plastic souvenir that parents can buy for their kids at many Chicago-area attractions. (They first débuted in 1962). After much deliberation, I settled on a blue dolphin from the Seven Seas dolphin exhibit 🙂 this masterpiece is going on my desk at work.
We visited some of the small Kenosha museums on Saturday morning, right by the lake. They were small, but completely free and a good way to spend some time.
I got hooked on Gilmore Girls (while Kevin played Star Wars Battlefront on his new PS4) and really had a wonderful time just relaxing and enjoying the holiday with Kevin and his family. And I also won at two Disney games yesterday — Disney Scene It and the Magic Kingdom race game (circa 1997).
I made a delicious turkey quinoa bowl for dinner tonight (without avocado, corn, salsa, or tomatoes…), but it was delicious nonetheless. Looking forward to a few more weeks of work and then a nice long Christmas break 🙂
Kate
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