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Hi everyone! I am back from holiday trip to Chicago! I have now, six-ish years and multiple visits, after my sister moved there, done more or less (sometimes less) everything on the first 18 entries of Sadie Geraldine Oglepop's Chicago Hit List, all of which are meant to be done in one marathon weekend (as printed in the book "Supergranny: The Character Who Came To Life" (1989, Holderby & Bierce), and read many times by wee!me between 1990 and 1995)
Regulars:
1.Rent Bikes and cruise Lake Shore (borrowed rather than rented, but really glad I did this, I never know a place until I've done it by either bike or foot)
2. Have tea at Mayfair Regent Hotel with Victoria Charmain. (Victoria Charmain is sadly fictional, but in the book she's a successful mystery novelist, black, post-middle-aged, awesome, and, in retrospect, queer as hell, as is this entire book. Wee!Me had a type.) (The Mayfair is condos now.)
3.Watch poisonous frogs at Brookfield Zoo
4. Visit "Paris: A Rainy Day" at Art Institute - did not actually see this painting, but did see the Wreathing of the Lions and wander through the no-admission required parts.
Major Optionals:
1.Rest of Art Institute - see above
2. Cubs Game - meh, sportsball, although I would kinda like to see Wrigley Field some day.
3.Field Museum Sue!
4.Aquarium There is a sea turtle that floats butt-up because of an old injury and it's tragic but also adorable?
5.Museum of Science and Industry
6.Water Tower Place - have not actually been to the mall, but have been to the pumping station exhibit, which I probably enjoyed more!
7. Bears Game - meh, sportsball
8. Shubert Show - this takes too much advance planning for me I think? Maybe next time.
9. White Sox Game - meh, sportsball
10.Ballet - there were people from the ballet at the Wreathing of the Lions, so I'm calling it.
11.Tribune and Sun Times Newspaper Tour - I don't think this is possible anymore, but I have poked around Tribune Tower, which is about 1/3 of the most powerful sympathetic magic spell in the world, and somebody needs to write that into an urban fantasy sometime.
12.Cheeseburger at Billy Goat Tavern - we went to the smaller, newer one of these; I want to get to the original too, if only because the description in Supergranny's always reminded me of Bignose's Cafeteria on Lower North Aufzoo Street
13.Top of John Hancock and/or Sears Tower - went to the cocktail lounge on the second-from-the-top floor because the locals say that's a better deal. There was a spider! building a web! on the *outside*!
14."El" train - there are pokestops at every single station!
There are apparently 133 more Major Optionals and I'd love to know what they are but I've never managed to find any other books in the series. Alas. Anyway, wee!me who re-read that book until it's falling apart is feeling very accomplished today!
Also, not on the list but we went ice skating on the ribbon in Daley Park and I fell down and bruised the heck out of my knees. \o/
Still in holiday mode and not feeling like going back to work tomorrow, but that's how it goes.
The Tumblr thing seems to be developing; I was already kind of idly thinking about doing a December Posting Meme thing again (starting with finally finishing a post with advice on how to make discussion posts), so maybe this is a good time to get an "everybody get more active on DW!" movement going in general.
Regulars:
1.
2. Have tea at Mayfair Regent Hotel with Victoria Charmain. (Victoria Charmain is sadly fictional, but in the book she's a successful mystery novelist, black, post-middle-aged, awesome, and, in retrospect, queer as hell, as is this entire book. Wee!Me had a type.) (The Mayfair is condos now.)
3.
4. Visit "Paris: A Rainy Day" at Art Institute - did not actually see this painting, but did see the Wreathing of the Lions and wander through the no-admission required parts.
Major Optionals:
1.
2. Cubs Game - meh, sportsball, although I would kinda like to see Wrigley Field some day.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7. Bears Game - meh, sportsball
8. Shubert Show - this takes too much advance planning for me I think? Maybe next time.
9. White Sox Game - meh, sportsball
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
There are apparently 133 more Major Optionals and I'd love to know what they are but I've never managed to find any other books in the series. Alas. Anyway, wee!me who re-read that book until it's falling apart is feeling very accomplished today!
Also, not on the list but we went ice skating on the ribbon in Daley Park and I fell down and bruised the heck out of my knees. \o/
Still in holiday mode and not feeling like going back to work tomorrow, but that's how it goes.
The Tumblr thing seems to be developing; I was already kind of idly thinking about doing a December Posting Meme thing again (starting with finally finishing a post with advice on how to make discussion posts), so maybe this is a good time to get an "everybody get more active on DW!" movement going in general.