Here are the highlight of My weekend.
1. Impromptu Family Reunions. We went to Chicago for My husband’s grand parent’s 75th wedding anniversary. We knew we would be overwhelmed by My father-in-law’s family but what We were unprepared for was My mother-in-law’s entire family turning up the night before. Aunts, Uncles, cousins, Great Aunts, Great Uncles, cousins, brother, nieces, cousins. Friday night, dinner for 30. Sat night, dinner for 50.
2. Food. I am finally able to weight in on the age old debate: Which is better? Chicago or New York style pizza? Having had Grandpa’s Pizza in New York on a few occasions, and having now eaten at Gulliver’s (a Chicago Institution) I can say with no reservations that Chicago style has NOTHING on New York. New York wins hands down. Grandpa, I was thinking of you the whole time Gulliver was in My mouth.
3. Food. My father-in-law is Chinese. Most of his large family lives in Chicago proper. When there is a family reunion I am treated to authentic Cantonese food. There was talk about going to an Italian restaurant but thankfully that was just scuttlebutt. We hit the Kow-Kow restaurant and had 24 dished (plus appetizers) passed around the room. I can not emphasize this enough. There are few things in life better than eating Chinese food with Chinese people (and yes they call it Chinese food). SO GOOD!
4. Blatant disregard for children. We spent a lot of time poolside. My kid and her cousins playing in the pool as were several other children from the hotel. What was noticeably missing were the children’s parents. 6 kids between the ages of 4-8 were sent by their parents to the pool to play while they stayed in the room. There was no life guard. And none of these children knew how to swim. I nearly cried.
5. Transformers 3 being filmed in down town Chicago. This is not a highlight but it rates mentioning that they were filming it while We were there. My F-I-L took My niece for a tour of down town but I had threatened to slap Shia Labloof in the face too many times to actually be taken downtown to see the filming. However Shia did manage to annoy Me personally by his presence. On the ride in We had no problems with traffic till We hit Chicago. The traffic generated by Shia and the Transformers caused the interstate to be at a dead stop. It took us 2 hours to go 13 miles. So I owe Shia a 5th slap. 1. for Transformers 1. 2 for Transformers 2. 3 just for living. 4 for saying he wanted to marry his mom. And 5 for inconviencing Me. 6 will be if they actually make Tranformers 3.
6. Getting home. When we FINALLY turned the corner onto our street, what awaited us? A rainbow, ending directly over Our home. How perfect is that?
1 comment:
fuck yeah! take that, chi- town! once you've tasted Grandpa, Gulliver is just a limp little bitch.
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