Third Saturday of the year. Third Team Saturdazzle post. For Christmas this year I gave Amy tickets to a Bulls game. We used them this weekend and drove to the city to watch The Bulls lose a close one to the Charlotte Hornets. Amy likes either playing sports or watching them live. I like those as well as watching sports on TV. , listening to sports on the radio and reading the accounts of a game in a newspaper or online. But being with Amy makes everything even losing to the Hornets better.
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Horace Grant 87-94 Bulls (1st 3 championships)
Randy Brown 95-00 Bulls (Last 3 championships) |
A case in point is after I gave Amy the tickets she decided that staying overnight in Chicago would be better than driving back to our home in the suburbs. This is why I sit here at a Chicago hotel chronicling our adventure so far early on a Saturday morning.
One thing Amy and I like about staying in a hotel is television. In the 26-plus years we’ve been married many of those years have been spent without a TV. A few more years have been spent owning a TV. You can only watch DVDs or video cassettes. So on those occasions when we have stayed in hotel rooms we have enjoyed watching broadcast television. Yesterday after the game we watched a couple episodes of Seinfeld followed by an episode of Friends. After that we turned on TUBI and watched a part of an episode of What's Happening and part of an episode of The Floor, We watched the former because one of the Bull's bench players, Jalen Smith gives off a big Roger vibe from the show.
The latter is because we have been catching up on the 2nd season of the Fox game show sporadically over the past few months.
This morning I went downstairs for some breakfast and I encountered a young man with a Hornets hoody and a Bulls Cap. It's the kind of thing I would do with Cubs and Sox gear so he let me take a pic of him. The breakfast was good. I don't see grits as an offering very much in the Chicago area but was glass to partake.
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| Bulls Cap Hornets Hoodie |
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Breakfast these days takes grits and hard-boiled determination.
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Checkout at the hotel wasn't until noon. So we lingered and then on the way home we stopped by a restaurant I'd seen on Friday that appealed to several parts of my nature.
1. It's a classic Chicago Hotdog spot.
2. The name of the place, LuLu's is also one of our nicknames for our youngest daughter.
3. Three Words: Home Made Chili
4. Art work reminiscent of the Little Lulu comics without giving any of the credit.
5. When I went in I decided I would see if they could put Chili on my Polish. Not only could they but the Chili Cheese Polish, which I thought I had invented seconds before, was their special of the day.
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| While I don't subscribe to the no ketchup on hot dog |
theory, I do appreciate the wry wit of this poster.
For the last 3 years our Saturdays were too busy in the winter to get away for the weekend. Almost every weekend, we were judging a speech tournament which took a huge portion of our Saturdays. Even yesterday we drove by a high school on our way home blissfully unaware that the Larkin Speech Team was participating in a tournament there.
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