OK, so I needed a new sportsbra. One of the best of the best is made by Nike, but here's the problem. They don't just sell it anywhere … it's sold almost exclusively at Niketown and at their online shop. Well you don't really just buy a bra online w/o knowing if it'll fit you properly or not, so Matt and I made a spur-of-the-moment decision to run to the nearest Niketown in Chicago (why didn't I think to do this when I was in Denver??). We reasoned that since it was a Sunday … Superbowl Sunday no less … that things wouldn't be that crowded. We were right! It was an excellent day to visit Chi-Town.
We drove to Madison Avenue and visited a few shops there (Niketown among them). Along the way we saw a car on fire, which was pretty interesting. After that, we went to Schaumburg (with a minor detour or two, thanks to not really knowing our way around) and hit Ikea . I scored a $40 coffee table that I will decoupage with something … sometime. It's pretty neat. And some other stuff. After all that was done, we had a leisurely dinner at Bahama Breeze. It was a pretty good restaurant … maybe a weee bit over-priced, but I had excellent shrimp and a great Bahamarita (yes, that has tequila in it!).
No crowds, no muss, no fuss. I love Superbowl Sunday.
. For me, the highlight of the trip (I'd already seen the pretty pretty architechture) was American Science and Surplus. It's a really cool store, full of weird things. You can buy a frog to disect, camoflouge tape, chemistry glassware, speakers ripped out of god-knows-what, and on and on and on. I went a little buy-happy (since I never get to it, being that it's over an hour away). I bought: