Cookin up a kitchen

My newest blog can be found here:

http://amysnewkitchen.blogspot.com/

Since I like cooking food and I like taking pictures, and I have too much time on my hands, what better way to spend it than another blog?!  Yay!  My new food blog is just getting its start but I have quite a few recipes up there already.

I took this picture at Fox & Obel Market in Chicago.  We had breakfast here one day and it was delicious!

Chicago Rocks

Check out this city:

Wow, Chicago is a huge city.  We tried to cram as much into 2 & 1/2 days as possible, but there was still so much that we didn't get to do.  We did get some of the really important things taken care of though. 

We:

Ate White Castles

Ate Chicago Dogs

Drank Green Beer

Ate Deep Dish Stuffed Pizza

Went to the Shedd Aquarium

Walked about 50 miles

Bought a shamrock scarf!

Found a pub that became 'our pub'

Took lots of pictures

Didn't eat anywhere that we could eat at in Denver

Saw the river be dyed green

Attended the St. Patty's day parade

Got drinks 95 floors up at the Signature Room in the John Hancock building

Had a couples massage in the room of our hotel

Did a little shopping

Got rained on

Went to Trader Joe's

Jeff and The Bean

At Giordano's waiting for our table and pizza!

Deep Dish Pizza

Willie Wonka river

The O'Brien's at the St. Patrick's Day green river

The view from our hotel room

The view from the 95th floor of the John Hancock building!

This is what I like to call a Hot Date at 950 feet

Green Beer!!

Doesn't this look like a haunted mansion or something?  I really like this picture!

More Chicago at night

I like to call this one 'Look Ma, No Heads!'

Chicago was amazing.  It really makes me want to travel more and I think Jeff and I should take advantage as much as possible right now while he doesn't have to take time off of work.  I'm already trying to figure out where to go next! 

Crazy week

It was supposed to be a nice calm week last week and it started out that way.  Then our sweet little Rockstar had a run-in with a ski while backcountry skiing with Jeff down Loveland Pass.  Now she looks like this.

Don't let her fool you though.  She really likes this whole, I'm a gimp, I can't go up or down the stairs so you have to carry me, and feed me my pills in lunch meat....and on and on and on like that.  She really enjoys getting her pills.  I think she might actually hope to break a stitch so she can get more lunch meat pills.

But we had her follow up vet appt today and she is doing great!  They said her wounds are healing perfectly and they look great.  The staples come out next Monday, right after we get back from Chicago!!  Hopefully-she remembers this and doesn't run into any more skis any time soon.

Then on Saturday we did our civic duty and donated money to charity.  We did an 80's pub crawl with the monies raised going to Autism Speaks.  The lady who runs the event has a daughter with autism so she runs these pub crawls about twice a year.  It was so much fun.  Wanna see some neon?  Ok-you asked for it!!

That's our awesome team.  We had so much fun.  It doesn't get much better than being able to dress like a freak and drink a bunch of beer.