lunar new year

Ahoy,

We made our annual pilgrimage to Chicago for Chinese new year. The highlight was probably Beaver Donuts, which I got to eat 5 days in a row. My record thus far. It was glorious.

O & H flew in for the weekend, H's first time in Chicago! We did the usual for first timers to Chicago, spending most of our time exploring the downtown area. We made stops at the Architecture society, cultural center, library, eataly, french market, millennium park, maggie daley park, billy goat's tavern, water tower place, etc. I"m sure you don't need a laundry list anymore because I've probably mentioned all these places here before. Winter was pretty mild because of el nino, so it wasn't as uncomfortable as it could have been while we were walking everywhere. Somehow we made it to a 10pm dinner reservation at Girl & the Goat.

Sunday was a late start, which was fine. We mostly hung around Bridgeport because it was new year's eve. We got some coffee, went to the park to throw ice in the quarry. We dropped off our amigos at the airport, excited to see them in May again.

I was pretty apprehensive about our trip that week to Machu Picchu. We had some errands to complete before we could leave. The RRS was pretty sure he could wear his non-waterproof sneakers. Much to the contrary, I voted he should buy some weatherproof shoes. After a long fruitless search we ended up at Northface, which is where we should have begun with all along. It ended up raining only one day despite the forecast for all days, but it rained hard that one day at Machu Picchu. If I had a nickel for every time I told him so.

justifiably agloat,
jt