Heath's Random Thoughts

New Year's Eve

Ok, so back to the catch up. After spending Christmas with my family and snowboarding at Alpine Valley, we got a call from one of my grad school buddies (Brian) asking if we would like to join him and his girlfriend (Camelia) for New Year's Eve with some other folks. This was great timing, because due to the Illini making the Rose Bowl, a lot of our friends were out in California for New Year's and we hadn't finalized any plans yet.

So at about 4 PM on New Years Eve we stepped out of our apartment into what turned out was the beginning of a small blizzard and drove the Jeep (with new tires) down to the neighborhood of Wicker Park to meet up with the gang. After waiting for another friend of ours and his fiance we all jumped on the Blue Line train and headed down toward the Loop to have dinner at the Italian Village. We were given our own private booth which was nice because like all Italian restaurants it was noisy with people visiting with each other. We all enjoyed some good food and wine and then grabbed a cab to the Chicago Theater where we met up with even more friends to catch the Cirque de Jungle show on its last night in town. It was very similar to a Cirque de Soliel show if you have ever seen one but on a smaller scale. After the show we caught the Blue Line back out to Wicker Park and spent the rest of the evening ringing in the New Year at Brian and Camelia's and playing "Catch Phrase" until 3:30 AM. After that I dug my Jeep out of the snow and Kelly and I made our way back to Evanston for some much needed sleep! All in all it was a great New Year with loved ones, new friends, a show and dinner. Good Times!

Labels: Chicago, entertainment, Holidays

posted by Heath @ 12:23 PM