Just got over my Jet lag (& hangover) following my 6 nights in Chicago so I'll confess the diet took a bit of stick unless of course Deep dish Pizza, Bacon Cheeseburgers, giant steaks and lots of beer are good for weight loss.
Well to be honest it turned out to be one long party, of us went me and two TT team mates. Getting the late light from Heathrow given us the morning to drive the 200 miles we didn't arrive until 9pm at our hotel. Basically it was a quick Shower, shave, change of clothes and out for some food.
Of course we were tired when we left the hotel at 10 pm we'd been up well over 20 hours (it was 4am in the UK) so the plan was food and bed. The food was good a big steak and as we set off walking back to the hotel we called in a bar with live music on to swill it down with a couple of beers. However as we were finishing our first drink a bloke that we didn't know brought us some more over, didn't really understand why.
Anyway after we finished these we decided to have another round so we could buy him one back, however the barman refused our money telling us our Boozy Billionaire had already paid ours in. This continued for the rest of the time we were there then he came over with 3 CD's of the band performing and gave them to us, he had bought them for us. Eventually we did get to leave about 3am quite the worse for wear but hardly spent a penny.
So off to the hotel but on the way back to the hotel we passed a small bar and decided to call in or one more so we could use the facilities and relieve our bladders. As we finished our drinks one of my mates had convinced himself that another person stood not far from us was a Aussie Rockstar (the lead singer from Jet). Of course we told him he was talking bullshit and it must be someone that just looks like him.
However he was convinced but wouldn't go over and ask so I thought we'd be there all night unless I faced the embarrasment of asking, well what do I know it turned out to be the genuine article and was a good laugh,you guessed it more drinks bought for us.
Well with night one gone could it get better, thats a difficult one, Thursday it was a Pub meal followed by a visit to a Blues Club, yes sure we had a few more beers but on the way back we saw a bar with a TT table and went in. People were playing a game called "Beer Pong" which invoved throwing TT balls in plastic cups. A couple of locals asked if we wanted to join in so been competitive we thought why not. What they had failed to mention was when our opponent scored we had to drink a cup of beer. Not going to mention what state we were in when we eventually got away.
So two crazy nights and Friday we went to the Howl at the Moon duelling Piano bar after eating at a sports bar and playing some Pool. Lets just say the piano bar was certainly a place for fun nd a good laugh full of groups celebrating bithdays, hen nights, etc. Got chatting with quite a few people, in fact everyone was so friendly people were just there for fun. About 1am the server brought us 3 what can only be descibed as very strong drinks saying they had been bought for us, I looked around and there was our Boozy Billionaire from night one. We went over for a chat and when the place was closing at 2am he asked if we fancied going to another Club that opens later, he paid for our taxi and admission into the next Club plus our drinks fo the rest of the night, honestly we tried to buy him drinks but he wouldn't have any of it. He actually left before us but not before iving us his buisness card, turns out he is vice president of a worldwide upmarket hotel chain.
Saturday drinking wise was probably our quietest night, we got tickets to see international blues artist Robert Cray, so it was a meal then onto the concert which was really good.
Sunday night we visited a couple of well known Chicago Blues Clubs Kingston Mines & B.L.U.E.S. on Halstead street in the Lincoln Park area, one act in particular Toronzo Cannon was superb actually bought his CD, hadn't heard him before but he played some awesome guitar.
Our last night we did a bit of a bar/club tour before going back our hotel sometime in the early hours. As we walked along the street a very large coloured gentleman appeared from a building and came up to us. He asked "is there was a strip club in the area". I explained we were from England and weren't that familiar with the area.
He started laughing and asked if we play basketball in England "We told him no" wanted to say schoolgirls play a similar sport called netball but looking at his size didn't want to test his humour.
Still laughing he said "don't you recognise me ?" Nope we said, he was shocked and couldn't believe it but thought it funny.
He was a good laugh though and quite a charactor I thought he said he played for the Spurs (San Antonio assume) but gave his name as Andre Johnson or something like that and when we checked it out that name wasn't on their squad list. Maybe just having a laugh at our exspense or maybe didn't want it to become knowledge he was out in the early hours. He did have a big flash car though.
Thats about it
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That lead sinder from Jet is a bit of a honey. Luckey you guys!
Luckey - the E :o)
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