Oh and how I strayed

I am sorry I have not written in a long time. I am looking for a new job and that is taking up a lot of time. Also my sister was in town for the weekend. If you have never been in Chicago you should know that there is a ton of great stuff to do. There are museums, Navy Pier, Sears Tower, etc.

My sister and I ate. Non stop. All weekend. It was great. Friday night we had Joy Yee Noodle, the most authentic Chinese restaurant I have ever been too. It is one of my favorite places. We had spring rolls, lobster balls, and beef teriyaki. Then we went to Baskin Robbins. We started early Saturday morning with the ninety-nine cent breakfast at Ikea, bacon, eggs and hash browns but we also got an order of the Swedish pancakes to share.

We worked off breakfast with some shopping. We were due down town at 1:30 for our brunch reservations at Frontera Grill. It was divine. We had the appetizer platter which had halibut cevichie, taquitos, mini quesadillas, and a jicama salad. I had the skirt steak tacos that had the most amazing refried beans. I never knew beans could taste so good! My sister had some sort of lamb stew. For dessert I had chocolate pecan pie. She had an autumnal tart. Of course we both had a couple margaritas to wash it all down!

For dinner we had Chicago style deep-dish pizza from Girodinos. It was excellent! Sunday morning we got off to a late start so we skipped breakfast. For lunch we had Portillos hot dogs. Then for dinner we had El Barrco. Mexican again! We were on a kick what can I say. I think it was the margaritas. Anyways, we had shrimp cevichi for an appetizer. I had steak fajita and she had shrimp enchiladas. After that we went to Margie’s candy which is a Chicago institution. We each had atomic sundaes. Yummy. When we got home I fell into food coma oblivion and passed out at nine p.m.

It was a great weekend. I’m back on the diet for the week. Next Monday my dad and stepmom are coming for a couple of days though! I will have to do my part and show them the town!