Last week, Andrew cryptically scheduled Ryan for a day of something. No one really knew what Andrew was up to, so we weren’t sure whether Ryan would be alive after that day. Turns out, Andrew bought the parts to assemble a MakerBot, so Mark, Andrew and Ryan set out to make the MakerBot so they could make other stuff. Oh… Sam joined for a brief period of time.

They finished really early this morning, but I took a few photos last night. I played around with the processing a bit… hope it’s not annoying. ;)

Okay, it’s a bit late, but here are photos from Chicago. We’ll start off with some from Alinea, which was pretty ridiculous. I’d consider going again in a few years, definitely.

This was my favorite:

The dessert was pretty crazy. I don’t even know what was in it.

It was pretty cold… I think when we got in it was somewhere in the lower teens.

We went to the John Hancock Observatory which was pretty cool. Nice view of the city.

I think this one is funny because it looks like an ad photo.

The day after Alinea, we went to Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak and Stone Crab, which was pretty awesome. This is the same restaurant I went to in Las Vegas.

After that, we had stuffed pizza and Chinese:

The next day, we had brunch and italian and visited The Bean:

The last day… I don’t remember the place. It was good but not memorable. It did have wood ice-cream though.

We also…

• Saw Les Misérables, which was enjoyable.


• Saw a small play that was put together with various real love/break-up letters. It was amusing.

Tomorrow, I fly to Chicago and eat at Alinea! WooOoOooOOoo!

I ordered a suit from Banana Republic because apparently no one likes to stock 36R’s in their actual stores. I think it ended up fitting rather well (at least better than the very very few 36R’s I did manage to find locally).

I was debating about whether or not to take photos of my food at Alinea, but now I think I will. The most convincing reason? To make my sister jealous. HAHAHAHA.

I had fun this weekend looking at some old photos from 2004-2005 time period. A select few have now been uploaded to Facebook.

HAHAHAHA. My sisters love me so much. =D

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