Back to Chicago again to celebrate Lindsey's final bash as a single lady this weekend, the countdown is on -- 3 weeks til the BIG DAY! Lindsey is my best friend from Iowa - we lived 2 doors down from each other in the dorms and continued to live together for the next 3 years in Iowa City. When 5 guys moved in next door to us we quickly became best friends, and for Lindsey, she found her future husband, Brian A.K.A 'Shants' (he's been known to wake up after a night out wearing his shirt as pants) - hey, they're not going to let me say anything embarrassing about him at the wedding so I might as well do it here :) I arrived Friday night to head out with Brian, Lindsey, and Becki to celebrate Brian's 28th birthday. We hit up Old Town/Wells and Lindsey suggested we do a signature drink crawl - look how the idea has spread! We knew we had a big day ahead so we tried to take it easy ending our night @ Bacci, 4 GIANT slices of pizza and 30, yes 30, mozzarella sticks - the beginning of a weekend of consuming food...
Saturday was Bachelorette Day!!! We bridesmaids surprised Lindsey with a Chicago Fat Food Tour. We started at Pizano's for deep dish and classic Chicago pizza followed by, brownies @ Sarah's, The Drake Hotel, cajun food @ Heaven on 7, Hot Dogs @ Downtown Dogs, Cheeseburgers @ The Billy Goat Tavern, then to the Allerton Hotel for churros & chocolate. Oh, and some random restaurant stopped to give us butter biscuts - like we needed more food. I reached a level of fullness I never thought was humanly possible - then, had to go put a dress on :)
Pizano's with Aunt Phyl, Jamie, MJ Colantino, Lindsey, Becki, Ami, Jenny and I
Jamie & the happy mother of the bride
The Drake Hotel - apparently has one of the #1 most beautiful women's bathrooms in the world - who knew??
Heaven on 7
Jenny, Becki & I enjoying our hurricane
Billy Goat Tavern
Last stop @ the Allerton Hotel
We all got ready at the Hyatt with some champagne & laughs and got ready for a fun night ahead. The night started at Lindsey's with an amazing spread of food & drinks, tons of gifts and all her friends joined us. We hopped on a trolley and busted out our best dance moves - it was an amazing night and got us all pumped for the bigger party on April 28th. Since I left my camera at the hotel this is the point where the pics stop but hopefully Amy will share some from the rest of the night....or maybe it's better this way :)
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