Yesterday morning before I left Texas I took the opprotunity to see Barack Obama speak at the Austin Convention Center for a town-hall meeting with my mum. Had to leave the house at 6:30am, which was pretty rough considering my crazy 'LAST NIGHT IN AUSTIN!!' night had only ended hours before. Obama only got to answer a total of 8 questions, but its amazing how many points of discussion a politician can tie into each long answer. While keeping my mind open, I have been an Obama supporter for over a year now... so I was very happy to see him speak in person before I left. And if your curious, I did make sure to early vote, but for the general election I'll probably have to figure out how to mail in an absentee balot.. Yesterday evening I flew into Chicago O'Hare and took the train into the city. The train system here is pretty easy to follow, and it was great that my first up-close view of the downtown buildings came from an elevated train weaving through them.
It's in the 20's (F) here, but luckily last night it 
was never windy so it was actually really good weather. Speaking of which, this is kinda sad to admit but last night i walked around in my first actual snowfall. I'm not talking about the "hey look at those little white specks... what are those... um i think it's snow?" that we get every 4 years in Texas. 21 years old and it's my first time to actually experience a snowfall since before I can remember (read: before 3 years old). The novelty of the snow lasted for about 2 minutes and then I realized that I was making it EXTREMLY obvious that I was an out-of-towner. As if the longhorns cap Meg insisted I wear didn't do that already..
was never windy so it was actually really good weather. Speaking of which, this is kinda sad to admit but last night i walked around in my first actual snowfall. I'm not talking about the "hey look at those little white specks... what are those... um i think it's snow?" that we get every 4 years in Texas. 21 years old and it's my first time to actually experience a snowfall since before I can remember (read: before 3 years old). The novelty of the snow lasted for about 2 minutes and then I realized that I was making it EXTREMLY obvious that I was an out-of-towner. As if the longhorns cap Meg insisted I wear didn't do that already..Once I met up with Meghan at her school (the Illinois College of Optometry), we took the train up to Lincoln Park to check out the bar scene and meet up with some of her friends. Grabbed dinner at a bar/restraunt called Trinity, but we got there just late enough that they were only serving their 'late night menu'. Pretty much the 'munchies for the drunkies' menu. Both of the bars that we spent most of our time in (we met up with her friends at the second one) had huge irish themes goin on, and pictures of local firemen from 50 years ago. The people were pretty friendly, it seems most of the people my age down at the bars were originally from somewhere else, so I never felt out of place.
On my next post hopefully I'll have spent some time downtown, so I can't wait to see how that goes. Sadly, I think the weather report said it's going to be pretty windy during the time I'll be down there... and I'm just not sure if I'm ready to experience 'windy' during a Chicago winter just yet : /
