Fall Break

So every year Coe has a Fall Break midway through the first semester. As this semester is already drawing to a close, our Fall Break was obviously quite a while ago, but my camera has been broken so I have to rely on friends to get me pictures to put on this site. Well, that and the semester coming to an end generally overwhelms me with everything I have procrastinated on all semester!
Anyway, this year for fall break I went with two friends to Chicago for a weekend. My friend Mike is from Skokie, which is a suburb right next to Chicago, so we decided to use his house as a base. We left Cedar Rapids Friday afternoon and after a stop at my house in DeWitt it was off to Skokie!






We got into Skokie and ate a delicious meal of lasagna with Mike's family and watched some baseball before heading out to visit some of Mike's friends. We were pretty tired from the trip and went to bed early, as we had a big day planned.



Saturday morning we woke up and immediately called resturaunts in town to see which would have the Iowa football game on TV. Naturally, Buffalo Wild Wings, one of our favorite places, was where we ended up. After the game (they lost, of course) we got on a train and headed downtown to Chicago. We stopped and picked up my friend from home, Landon, who is now a student at Columbia and living in Chicago (that's Landon on the right). We just got off at a stop with no real plan or destination and wandered the streets for a while until we wound up at Millennium Park (with the giant metallic "bean"). While we were there Mike was enticed by a game of bags at the restaurant in the park, so just like we do every other weekend in Cedar Rapids, we ended up playing bags for a few hours, except it was under the Chicago skyline, which was pretty cool.
After our hours of bag playing we didn't feel like paying to eat at the trendy restaurant where we were playing bags so we stopped by Jimmy John's for a sandwich (while Amy escaped to do some quick Michigan Ave. shopping). We were then back on a train to meet some other friends for a drink in a different part of town. We then jumped from place to place until we realized it was 3:00 a.m. and we should probably be heading back soon! The night ended with another train ride to Mike's house and a very welcoming night of sleep!


We got up the next day and made the trip back to Iowa feeling good about our little adventure from the ordinary!