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I spent the weekend in Chicago visiting my recently-moved-out-of-Atlanta friend Adam. Along for the journey were fellow Atlantans Robert and Sean.

I’ve never been to Chicago before, and Adam definitely showed it to me proper. Friday night was a hang-out at the pub night in his neighborhood. I was amazed by that fact that none of the bars were overly crowded like those here in the ATL. A nice surprise.

Saturday day was spent touring the city both on foot and bike. The bike ride by the lake to Navy Pier and Millennium Park was excellent. I was really wiped when we were done, but the day was still young as Adam was hosting a party back at his place starting at 7:00. After the party, we went with some dork who was “going to show the dirty birds how to party in Chicago” to a very Buckhead-like neighborhood. My feelings are, if it ain’t Fado, I don’t want to goto Buckhead. The same could be said for this neighborhood. It was crowded and really not that great. Also, I did not learn any new partying skills. I might not have been paying close enough attention, though. I’ve never done so much in one day.

Sunday was spent at a local sports bar watching some NFL. Glad to report that my Giants got a victory. Another great thing here was that we were late for the early game kickoffs, but there were still plenty of places to sit in the bar. Even though the hometown Bears were on. If I tried to do that at Jocks and Jills, I would be standing or sitting on the floor. Once again, a nice surprise. After that we scrambled back to Adam’s and almost missed our flight back home due to some traffic (something that felt more like Atlanta).

I had an excellent time and am definitely going to be visiting again. Chicago is an extremely fun and totally different city from Atlanta. My thanks to Adam.

Oh and the reason that Chicago is spelled ‘Chicargo’ in the title is because there is this lady that I work with that pronounces it that way and I think it is very funny.