Chi town

Chicago luck strikes again!! Seriously....I don't know why Chicago has to hate me and Scott so much. If you remember last year we got mini-mugged, bought fake tickets for a concert, I fell down the subway stairs, accidentally took a wrong cab costing us $100, and got buckets of rain dumped on us.
Total money lost: $210

This year......
 Incident 1:
First off, somehow in my life I have never had a delayed flight...ever. Weird I know. Of course on my way to Chicago had to be the first time. I sat...in the plane....for 2 HOURS!!! Siting that long you gotta play games on your phone, so I started to play SongPop, which plays snippits of songs and you have to guess what they are before your opponent. Jerky guy sitting 3 seats away in the row in front of me is not having this though!

Jerk: Is that your phone making that noise!! (giving me hateful eyes)
me: yeah
Jerk: Will you put your headphones on? (eyes bugging out of his head now and mouth pinched)
me: sure (I turn off game instead cause I don't want to put my headphones on)
Jerk: (Just stands there staring at me all jerky like)
me: you can walk away now (me giving him a disdainful look showing him I don't appreciate his looks)

Then the guy in the seat in front of me starts watching a movie without his headphones and does the guy say something to him?!? No!! What a tool!!!

 Wait time on plane

Incident 2:
You know how I was soooo excited for the Ghost Tour? Seriously to see the sites of the Valentines Day Massacre or where H.H. Holmes killed so many during the World Fair would be spooky awesome!! Well, on the way there we got 2 flat tires, so we had to turn around and get a different car that would make it into the city. Since we had to do that we ended up getting stuck in evening traffic for 1 1/2 hours!!! Which made us 17 minutes late for the tour and it left without us. Oh did I mention that they don't do refunds? Yeah that was $120 down the drain! Suck!! So we ended up eating a super yummy Chicago Dog (no complaints on Chicago food...ever!!). After we ate we decided to run up to Garrett's and get some famous caramel popcorn!! We "ran" because it was raining, but apparently you shouldn't jostle Chicago Dog's so soon after consumption because I barfed it up right in the middle of the sidewalk in front of people! (No I'm not pregnant) I was a bit embarrassed, so I ran off leaving them all with curious looks on their faces. We arrive at Garrett's and.....yup, it closed 15 minutes before we got there. Evening = unsuccessful!

** Side note: I wrote a long email to the owner of Weird Chicago Ghost Tours about how much Chicago hates me and he was sympathetic and super nice!! He said they don't normally give any sort of refund or voucher but he would make an exception and rebook us for a new tour when we go out next year!! Yay for understanding nice guys!! I would have thought my Chicago luck was changing, but then the next thing happened.

Incident 3:
I dropped my week old iPhone 5 in the toilet. I don't even want to talk about this.

Incident 4:

Every time we went into the city it rained...so I didn't want to pull out my nice camera to take pics. That blurry photo above is the only photo I took of/in Chicago. (I did get tons of pics of Naperville and the Notre Dam campus though).

Despite all the unlucky sucky moments we still had good times, but I feel those deserve their own happy post. Here is a teaser:

costume up

Here are some options I'm thinking of for Halloween this year (I know it's a little late to start planning, but I've been busy with my paint by numbers).

Fantastic Mr Fox

Batman & Harley Quinn

Circus themed. Maybe all black and white like the Night Circus.

I could be a Ring Master

 Scott could be the Strongman

Or maybe a Lion Tamer

 Or Scott could be the lion and I will be the lion tamer!! Haha! He can be a ginger lion.

Or I'll just be lazy and Scott and I will dress as each other.
This will be essential if we go that route:

In other news I'm off to Chicago for the week! Hopefully there won't be the bad luck we had last time! If there is I will be forced to believe Chicago is not my friend and out to get me.

cabin time

We went to the Steele family cabin over the weekend! It's a perfect weekend get away with it being only an hour up the mountains. Chilling on the porch in the crisp Fall air with the sun beating down on me and colorful leaves as far as the eye can see is little bit of Fall heaven!
Porch views:

I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I love Fall! I feel like everyone says that, but I want you to know that I loved it first. Of course, like everyone else, I love the crispness in the air, the smell of fireplaces, the beautiful colors adorning the trees and falling to the ground, the Halloween festiveness, and everything pumpkin flavored. But here are just a few reasons why my love for Fall is more legit than everyone else: I was born in the Fall in some of the most beautiful Fall surroundings of North Western Montana (two thumbs way up for Kalispell!), my first car was brown and orange...like a Fall leaf, I drink hot chocolate and wear cardigans all year long, and Christmas is my favorite holiday (which everyone knows that the Christmas itch really grabs hold of people in October making the Fall season that much more exciting). If that doesn't prove I'm too legit to quit than I don't know what will!!

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it's the fair!!

So I went to the fair...a month ago. I don't know why it's taken me this long to post about it, because you guys there was a freak show!!! Not with people (I'm still holding out for that someday), but with creepy animals!! Like a 6 legged cow, 2 nosed cow, 5 legged sheep, 2 headed turtle (which was kinda funny to see them trying to swim different directions), and lots of other freaky things encased in formaldehyde jars. The only bummer part is they wouldn't let me take pics inside the freak show tent, sorry. Except this cool guy who did a fire breathing act said I could take his pic :-)

Isn't' he a cutie patootie!?!

Here is some awesome freak show advertisements outside the tent:

I think Scott liked the mermaid cause of her tata's.

Other fair events

Look how fast I'm going on the big yellow slide!! My hair is whipping in the wind!

 Mmmmm fair food!!

 For some reason all the animals felt the need to have their butts pointed at me. Super rude!!

 Speaking fairs, has anyone read The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern? I am DYING to go to that circus!! If anyone knows of any super awesome, legit circus's like that let me know!! I will travel to see that!

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