Chicago

Well, wasn’t Viewer’s Choice fun? Fortunately for me, I will only do that the first of each month.

I have been thinking which QueenSuchandSuch claims is very dangerous and often has to pull out the fire extinguisher to reduce the flame and smoke damage. What I have realized is that I have found many Xanga virtual friends. When the Queen and I were both in Yahoo!, we would attend “chat” parties. They were monthly and often held in the Crystal City Bar and Grill.

So, my question to you is this, what would everyone think of having a Xanga weekend of frivolous frolicking and fun filled friendships? Since this is the first one ever, I was thinking about once a year. If it has a huge demand, I suppose we could increase the occurrences, but let’s not get carried away.

So, my first suggestion for the location is Chicago. My first reasoning for Chicago is, I don’t have to travel (selfish I know). But there is some logic behind it. Chicago during the summer is absolutely the best city in the world. I have traveled all over the U.S. and this city is the best.

There are other reasons behind Chicago, O’Hare airport is a central hub for many airlines so the airfare tends to be less. There is a plethora of things to do other than shopping the Magnificent Mile. Here is a small list:

Navy Pier
Shedd Aquarium
Adler Planetarium
Field Museum
Museum of Science and Industry
Lake Michigan
Sear’s Tower (even though John Hancock observation is better)
Chicago Architecture
Chicago nightlife (for the younger Rush street crowd)
Buckingham Fountain
Grant Park
Brookfield Zoo
Lincoln Park and Zoo
Six Flags
The cars on a spike
Architectural Boat tour complete with some leftover Dave Mathews DNA.

Millennium Park with The Bean!

And more.

I understand there are other cities that have these types of features. I chose summer because kids are out of school and vacations could be wrapped into the trip. Additionally, if it is timed correctly, we could schedule it to take place at the same time as the Taste of Chicago. The Taste is a collection of restaurants from all over the city, along Columbus Street through Grant Park. The food is orgasmic and there are concerts from local bands to headliners.

So, if there enough comments to support an operation like this, I will begin to create some surveys and lining up hotels rates and meeting places. I am also open to other suggestions for locations except Louisville, Kentucky J. Everyone needs to keep in mind that people may end up flying from New Jersey or Oregon.

I know I do not have nearly the amount of readers as Dan does, but if you have a chance to get input on the idea from others, I would value whatever is given. They could even leave the comment without props (that would help prevent the Featured Content Spammers).

Since this entry wasn’t as funny as you had hoped, I am pulling out one of my favorite Native American jokes.

The Blackfeet asked their Chief in autumn, if the winter was going to be cold or not. Not really knowing the answer, the chief replies that the winter was going to be cold and that the members of the village were to collect wood to be prepared.

Being a good leader, he then went to the nearest phone booth and called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is this winter to be cold?" The man on the phone responded, "This winter was going to be quite cold indeed."

So the Chief went back to speed up his people to collect even more wood to be prepared. A week later he called the National Weather Service again, "Is it going to be a very cold winter?"

"Yes," the man replied, "its going to be a very cold winter."

So the Chief goes back to his people and orders them to go and findevery scrap of wood they can find. Two weeks later he calls the National Weather Service again and asks "Are you absolutely sure, that the winter is going to be very cold?"

"Absolutely" the man replies, "the Blackfeet are collecting wood like crazy!"

How appropriate for groundhog day...long cold winter.