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The Tree at Daley Plaza at
Christkindl Market |
On November 19th I went to the Lighting of Michigan Ave with a few friends and a little beverage ha! These are the pictures I got there.
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| Adrianna, Nikki, Amy |
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| Pioneer Court |
The next day was friend-giving which my friend Danielle hosted. I was supposed to go to Rachel's friend-giving the week prior but I was home visiting with my sister who was in town from out West.
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| Michigan State Tree as seen from Michigan Ave |
The day before Thanksgiving I went to Grand Rapids to go out with my friend Kristin. It was the first time I have ever really gone out in Grand Rapids and I must say I was pretty impressed and I wouldn't mind going back soon.
Thanksgiving was spent at home with my mom and dad. A few people on my dad's side came over to celebrate with us. After thanksgiving was over the three of us went and saw
Hugo. I really impressed by this film. After the movie I went on my first ever true Black Friday shopping trip at midnight. The shopping part was easy it was the paying that was a pain in the ass. During the weekend I was able to hang out with some friends and go to the MSU Hockey games. After the game on Saturday we went out with the neighbors from the cottage.
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| Michigan State Tree in front of the Capital |
While I was home I went Downtown Lansing a couple times. Once just to go and look at the State Christmas Tree. The tree came from Houghton Lake on West Shore Drive just down the way from the cottage. The part I find most enjoyable about the State Christmas Tree is that it ranks #8 in the World of
most fabulous Christmas trees.
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| Capital in Lansing |
Once I was back in Chicago I went with my friend Mattie to
Kuma's Corner. This place has been on my list for a long time of places to try. It ranks in at #5 of the
top 100 cult restaurants. I have now been to 5 of these locations:
Hot Doug's,
Sultans, Kuma's,
Crisp, and
Umami Burger (in LA).
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Barbara, Sheila, John, Nikki, Me, and Heather
at Two Door Cinema Club @ The Vic |
To kick off December I went to Two Door Cinema Club at the Vic. I had never been to Vic before which is sad because it is just around the corner from my house and a very nice Venue.
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| Two Door Cinema Club |
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| Me, Denise, Chris |
I kept December going by joining up with my Amy and her family at
Lincoln Park Zoo Lights before running the Santa Hustle the next morning. It rained right up until the race started and then the sun even tried to peak through the clouds before the rain came back at the end of the run.
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| Holiday Train pulling into the station |
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Totally decorated interior of a standard
CTA Train car. |
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| Holiday Train |
After three years of living here in Chicago I finally found out you can look up the CTA Holiday Train schedule so you can purposely ride on it. I made it on the train once before but out of complete luck. I have sort of been stalking the Holiday Train this year. Took it from Wellington downtown and then back up a little later. In between Ashley, Nikki and I went to
Christkindl Market and drank Spiced wine out of boot shaped mugs. A week later I took the Holiday Train again but this time I took it home from work.
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| Santa rides along on the Holiday Train! |
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| Outside is totally covered in lights |
It had been a long time since I went down to The Garfield Park Conservatory. It was my first time down there since the hail storm in June which destroyed most of it. It was nice to see a lot of the conservatory was back to normal but there still is a long way to go. It was very refreshing to just get a small change of climate and be in a tropical world.
On December 10th I joined a few friends and about 10,000 strangers on a giant bar crawl across Wrigleyville. It is called TBOX or The Twelve Bars of Christmas. It was a long day but actually a to of fun. I never got too drunk just stayed a constant buzzed. The people watching might have been the best part of the whole day.
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| All of us at Brittani's for a little pre brunch |
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| Cereal!!! Nikki and Theresa |
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Love the look Marsha. Creepy Santa came over
to say hi. |
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| Nikki, Amy and Myself |
Now if only it would snow already. This rainy dreary cold is just getting annoying.
