chicago part 1

disclaimer: this post is not about keya. stop reading now mom.

i squeezed in a trip to chicago before we went to atlanta and savannah. i hadnt seen my friends collectively in a while, and i hadnt been to chicago since brads birthday in january which basically didnt count because i was there for like 12 hours and mostly just looked at pictures of keya the entire time. so this trip was a little different. first of all, i didnt cry when i left. secondly, i got to spend the entire day and night there and relax. and thirdly, i got to squeeze in some shopping. woohoo.

ill try and elaborate more on the details of the day/night, but lets just say, the first margarita i had at big taco aka big star lasted the entire day. so anyway, i drove into the city, felt like i was a tourist, went to ramis to drop off my stuff, ate an egg sandwich that she made me (which was delicious btw), went to vishwanaths to park my car in her spot (holla), then quickly went shopping and ended up with a lv handbag and some toms (yikes). hi jake! o. anyway then, we went back to ramis and richard and vish met us up there. we had to explain to rami that tights are not = to pants and therefore, maybe she should consider wearing atleast leggings o. so she finally changed and then we headed to big taco. we got to big taco where nadia, samit, asha, chichi, asif, alka, seema, and neha met us up (god am i forgetting anyone o). we ordered margaritas which apparently means a huge bottle of tequila resting over the shaker, with noone watching how much is actually poured aka the entire bottle. so then, we took a bunch of pictures of my mouth (which are now deleted sorry), ate a ton of queso fundito, and basically i dont know what else happened. someone made the executive decision to go to northern or southern, so we did, where we had some nasty drink that tasted like dhai (aka indian yogurt) it was straight nasty. sick. then more things happened, and then more things happened, a lot of deep conversations and stupid pictures, then more things happened and then we ended up at iberico. the scallops were rull to the good and the shrimp has changed. why? noone knows. then seema, rami, jogs, and bean came up with an evil plan to keep me out till the wee hours of the night (it was like 10pm at this point), which meant that rami and bean vanished into thin air and seema was cooercing me into getting into a cab. i didnt fall for that ish, and being the houdini that i am, i naturally ran away. chichi was with me and he wasnt part of the evil plan for some reason, so neither one of us knew what to do. so we did what came natural....we made fun of people walking around, i saved chichis life, and then we decided to go for a run. also part of our plan was finding a white hen pantry stoop to sit at. then somehow more things happened and we ended up back at ramis and then everyone named my toe "ling" because they decided it looked asian for some reason. noone knows why. chichi was braiding the other girls hair and i houdini'd myself into the middle of ramis bed hoping noone would notice. the end. oh the next morning we woke up because the sun actually rises in sheetal ramis bedroom, and then neha and i walked to find my car and i got real nostalgic about chicago and how much i miss that city. what a shame. i miss it sooooooooooooooooooooo much.

the end.