Sucked In, like a straw

Well the olympics have sucked me in, which is why there is a lack of posting. The live coverage is on during my prime time, around midnight. I don't care what the sport is, I am addicted.

We had a good time in Chicago, I think we forget how close it actually is. That is the great part about living where we live, so many cities within 5 hour travel time.

We went up to Wrigleyville on Saturday, but the cheapest ticket for one person was $150, so we passed and went to a nearby bar, which was flying Iowa Hawkeye flags. (They had a fund rasier for the hawkeyes and flood releif a few nights before we were there) We just walked right in, got a table, and ordered some food, while watching the Cubs on the TV. The Cubs managed to lose, so we hoped the train and headed back to downtown where our hotel was.

Chicago is easy to navigate, since it is on an easy block system and the train takes you wherever you need to go. We managed to get into the Rain Forest Cafe for supper, that place is wild. There is so many things going on, elephants trumpeting, apes pounding their chests, and tunderstorms.

We called it a night and made it back to our hotel. I think traveling around Chicago at night is safer that walking Iowa City at night.

On Sunday we knew we were going to go watch the Red Sox at the White Sox ball park, US Cellular Field. We checked out of the hotel and hoped the train to the ballpark. We did not have tickets, so we tried the legal way at the ticket office. They had $50 tickets, but on the highest deck with obstructed view. So we found a scalper, who had tickets next to the right feild foul pole, for only $60 bucks, great tickets.

There were so many Red Sox fans in town. Most of them were from Boston, it was fun riding the train with them, seems as if there were more of them on the train than white sox fans. It might be because you can park around their stadium. This is a newer ball park, so it really lacks in the atmosphere, no street vendors, no bars, hard to find scalpers.

Well we managed to sit near some rude White Sox fans. When the Red Sox pitchers left the game they sang "Na Na, Hey, Hey, Goodbye" but when it was time for their pitcher to leave, they booed the Red Sox singing of the song. Then when we were leaving, the red sox lost 6-5, one of the White Sox fans said, Go Tampa Bay (as they are leading the league) Um can't they cheer for their own team? Oh well we had a good time, we snagged a Nick Swisher bobble head doll and had some steak sandwhiches and peanuts.

After the game it was time to go find the car and drive back home.

So that leads me to today, nothing new really going on. Just working and it is not as hot as it has been, which is nice. Then when work is done I can go home and watch some more of the Olympics, that Micheal Phelps is fun to watch.