Cubs v. Braves

My first baseball game!  The Chicago Cubs v. The Atlanta Braves at Wrigleyfield.  It got cold, and by the end of the game, they were playing inside a cloud.  The Cubs won!

ooh, look at the sunset

notice, we moved seats

After the game, we went to a place called Merkle's:

Dopplerock

Vanilla Porter

fog!

Belmont 'L' stop and Big City Tap

We took the Brown Line up to the Belmont stop.  Walked around a bit and stopped at Big City Tap.  This is the Lake View neighborhood.

Belmont stop

Holy Moses beer

Starbucks in the Dominick's in Ukrainian Village

We bought a coffee as we were walking to the bus stop in Ukrainian Village.  This one is inside the Dominick's grocery store there.

Starbucks #22 for Ollie!

10¢ wings at The Rail - Chicago

10¢ wings!  My owner, two friends and I split fifty.  Well, I guess I didn't eat any, so the three of them split fifty.  The place is called The Rail (which is in the Ravenswood neighborhood) and this is something they do every Monday night.  We got them hot, Teriyaki and BBQ flavored.  Hoegaarden, BBK and Fat Tire were the beers of the night - pictured, anyway.

BBK

Fat Tire, Hoegaarden, Ollie, Hoegaarden, Da Bears

All fifty in their glory

Three, not so much glory (turns out there were actually more than fifty)

Cafes and walking around in Ukrainian Village, Bucktown, Wicker Park and East Village

Today we spent a lot of time in a few of Chicago's neighborhoods.  First we went to Cafe Ballou and my owner worked for a bit - he also read from Alias Grace for a bit too.  The bathroom there is crazy - there is an actual bath in there.  I took a few minutes to get to know the TP there too, of course.  Embarrassingly, there are pictures.  Then we walked around and you can see some pictures from that (including a squirrel that I thought might jump at me).  We ended up at Filter, a diner/cafe where we had more coffee (we got pretty wired that day) and had a chicken salad sandwich.  The dude next to us smelled a bit and the outlet didn't work for the laptop.  Then we went back to Ukrainian Village where my owner met his friend.  I got put in the car not too long after that, so that's the end of my day.

Overall it was a good day!

Cafe Ballou

Getting to know the help.  Also, want to bathe?

See, it's a public restroom

Cafe Ballou

Killer Squirrel!

Wicker Park / Bucktown

McDonald's casts quite a shadow...

Filter

Coffee in a Chicken Soup mug

Filter

Filter

Chicken Salad

Starbucks - North Park

This Starbucks is in the North Park neighborhood of Chicago - right across the street from North Park University.  My owner did his usual - laptop & Vivaldi's Virgins (this is the last entry for that book, however).

Starbucks #14 for Ollie!

O'Hare International Airport - ORD

My owner went to O'Hare Airport to pick up his friend - and he brought me along.  I only got to see around Terminal 5 (this is the international terminal), but it was great to see all the travelers arriving.  It was raining when we got there, but stopped so that I could get a look at all the flags outside.  I like flags, have I told you that before?

Airport #1 for Ollie - hopefully not the last!

Regulus Coffee House, Chicago

It's March!  Wow, time flies!

Regulus Coffee House is in the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago.  I quite enjoyed it there.  My owner bumped the table and spilled his coffee and as he was cleaning it up, the barista came over and helped him out, which was particularly nice of her.

My owner was reading Vivaldi's Virgins while we were here.

The Garage Bar & Sandwiches

Today was definitely a day for my owner to meet with friends.  He met another friend at a bar called The Garage.

Note, aside from my very first post, this is my first post from Chicago - even though I live here!  (this was in the Norwood Park neighborhood)

Bar #1 for Ollie!

Negra Modelo

I realized I wanted more... this was my first thought.  I remembered a few things - being warmly embraced by some toilet paper.  Spinning, and sitting still for a long time, then spinning again.  Then that warm embrace was gone.  Something made me think I wanted more, so I willed myself to get more and poof, there I was sitting on my owner's desk, next to his computer.  He'd drawn some eyes and a mouth's grin on me - I hadn't had those before.  So, now that I could see, I wanted to see more.  He helped me, and brought me to places.  I will tell you about those places here in this blog.