The Real Deal

This past weekend, I made the 5 hour trip up to Chicago to visit some of my friends from college!  We mainly went to attend the Mustache Bar Crawl in Wrigleyville, but also to hang out since we haven't really seen each other all summer. I took the train since I didn't really want to drive the 5 hours all by myself.  My first train on Friday left at 3:00pm, but I ended up getting into Chicago 2 hours late because a freight train broke down in front of us.  I didn't mind being late, I just felt bad making my friend hang around the city for so long while waiting for me!  We eventually met up, and we just headed back to her house to sleep and get ready for the bar crawl the next day. Saturday morning, we got ready, picked up some of her friends from home, and headed into the city!  We found a parking spot about a 10 minute drive from Wrigleyville, and took an Uber to the first bar of the day: Rizzo's! On the way to our next bar, we obviously had to take...

This past weekend, I drove up to my college town, Peoria, IL., to spend some time with some of my friends from college! As I've mentioned before on here, I am on the dance team at my university, and am also on the executive board for my dance team.  Before going home for the summer, we picked the weekend of July 7-8, to come back to school and have a dance workshop.  My entire team ended up being there that weekend, plus some people brought friends from home, making it a big and fun group! It is only a 2 hour and 30 minute drive to Peoria for me, so I left on Saturday morning so that I had time to get there and get settled before I had to head over to start our classes. The teacher of our first day of classes was the former dance teacher of one of the girls on our team.  We are a completely self-choreographed and taught team, so taking classes from a real dance teacher again felt really good!  She taught us four classes on Saturday: ballet technique, jazz ...