Dude, I was 8 rows from the field, behind the Sox dugout. For $38 bucks!!!! In NYC, the only way this happens is if A) You kill the owners of the seats or B) Your last name is Giuliani So it was a good game. We got 6 seats, my friend Jude was instrumental in getting us hooked up. They even had the best peanuts there, so that was good.
After the game, one of the group was nice enough to give us a lift back to the office/my hotel since it was a half block away.
By the way, the hotel of choice was the Hampton Inn, a nice little hotel with above average rooms, and free internet and breakfast, right in the middle of the loop. A good central place to stay.
Friday, was work and I was able to get some sightseeing in. This time, I headed up Michigan Avenue, over to the Chicago river, took a picture of a jet spray across it:
From there, I stopped at Navy Pier for a while and chilled, it was very windy and the water was very choppy, here, look:
From there, I headed along the lake to where Michigan Avenue meets the lake and headed west to Rush Street, from there, headed up to Ra Sushi (I'd been there before, probably mentioned in a post somewhere down this page) and stopped at Barnes and Noble. Next up, headed up to the ritzy Lincoln Park area, looked around, and made my way back to the Loop.
Onto the Blue Line to O'Hare. I still think Chicago has the best way to get to and from the airport if you're willing to take public transportation. Not surprisingly, the plane was running late, but I figured it would, so I chilled at the airport and took solace in the fact that my 5:20 flight boarded around 6:30 or so and left around the same time as the 2:45 PM flight to Newark left. So, it could have been much worse...
So, that's it for now. A quieter week ahead, but, out to Dallas the week after that....
