the rest of the weekend
After I posted yesterday, I did end up getting a ton done. In fact, this was probably the best Saturday I’ve had in months!
My brother and I went to Lincoln Park to try another pizza place: Chicago Pizza & Oven Grinder. This was our first non-Neapolitan experience, and it was crazy-good. Drinks, Mediterranean bread and pizza pot pie (as good as it sounds!): I paid $10.
Then we went to Swirlz, and he treated me to a Grasshopper cupcake. The woman who checked us out (the owner?) said we really should try the cranberry-chocolate, and we were unsure. “Oh, just give them one,” she told the guy bagging them. So I got two free (delicious! designer!) cupcakes on top of an amazing pizza meal: My total cost? free.
Fall is just ending in LP, and the tree-lined streets are lovely shades of deep orange and bright yellow. Maple leaves dot the sidewalks, and a chill was in the air. We walked over to Urban Outfitters just as it was getting dark, and I bought a great necklace I love: $19.62 (including Chicago tax).
Leaving the neighborhood, we headed to a big mall where we knocked out some beginning Christmas shopping: Crabtree and Evelyn for Mom ($19.26), a purse ($18) and a scarf ($18) for our great friend J and some snacky sweets for Dad’s birthday ($4) next week.
My kind of Saturday.
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