So this one time, it was August and I did stuff.
One of my favorite summer activities back when I was in high-school was to drive to Columbus with Miss Lizbeth and/or Miss Kate and see Shakespeare in the park. So I was already gleeful when I heard that Chicago was now going to have (free!!) Shakespeare in the park but then it doubled when I realized the actor playing the male lead was someone I worked with in Colorado! Miss Moshka and I had to go. And it was amazing.
The play was great, it was so fun to see Mr. Matt again, who doesn't love pick-nicking on grass, but mostly because I now have Willy Shakes's head on a stick. YES.
The summer-y theme of August continued with an all American meal at Miss Eire's house of pulled pork sandwiches, slaw, corn on the cob, strawberry pie a la mode and brews. Ate so much it hurt to move. I'm also completely enamored of Miss Eire's new dog, Cider, she has one blue eye and one brown eye and a bandana. Swoooooon!
I chopped the slaw cabbages and carrots while watching the highlight of the Olympics: The Spice Girls reunion. Sure, Michael Phelps may now be the most decorated athlete of all time, whatever SPICE GIRL REUNION. Aaaaand they're driving around on black cabs. I died. Died and gone to middle-school girl heaven. Girl power!!
Anyways, after I recovered from my Spice-y swoon I had Miss Eire over to my house for dinner, which was lovely. The two of us are concocting fantastic schemes of crafty-ness for the future, I'm going to help her with some basic pattern making and she's going to teach me how to crochet. Can you say Craft Night?!?!
I also got new glasses (yes, I wear glasses sometimes) which are fantastically girl reporter-y and I love it.
Spent a lovely day with Miss Ashley where we saw the new Bourne movie and held each other as they blew up the most beautiful house in the world "Not the staircase!! NOT THE STAIRCASE!!! Noooooooo". I'll never forgive them for that. Never.
We ate some buttermilk chicken then took a walk around my neighborhood.
I scored a potato press and the cutest plate in the world for $2 at a yard sale. Innocent enough, but it jump started my neglected hunter-gatherer needs which could only be satiated by a trip to Milwaukee for flea market/antique mall/shop-ing.
The original plan was for Miss Ashley and I to go it alone at the 7-Mile Fair, but as that turned out to be a creepy "buy 5 cases of socks out of the back of a truck" (literally.) sort of fair we decided to kidnap Miss Lyndsey to be our guide in our quest for old treasures. I'm very lucky to have friends who don't mind being kidnapped at a moments notice.
And o boy did Miss Lyndsey know where to go! Three floor antique mall. Three. Floors. Full of things that were blue and white, teal, and folk-y. I made off with Berggren-Trayer's Swedish Flower "Var Så God" creamer and sugar bowl to match my "coffee" mug. I may have a problem.
We were all starving and exhausted by the time we made our way through the epic mall so found sustenance in giant burgers. Hilariously we all have blogs but hate to have our photos taken so here's us:
Miss Lyndsey
Miss Ashely
and Me! The food was delicious, there were deep fried pickles and sweet potato fries and that ginger beer was superb. There was some more antiquing and I picked up a cute garlic press to save face as I suck so badly at chopping garlic I often avoid using it! SHAME.
And to top it all off Miss Lyndsey then took us to an Italian Grocery store. Raptures people, raptures. Sauce. Wine. Gnocchi. Pizzelles. Amaretti. Pasta. Prosciutto. Tiramisu. San Pellegrino pompelmo. And most of all Gelato! We ate ours outside and fed a wasp. He has very cultured taste.
We sadly took leave of Miss Lyndsey, piled our loot into the car, and headed back to the City.
We made two pit stops: The Apple Holler and...
...the Mars' CHEESE CASTLE.
It's all true. Wisconsin is a magical place indeed.
Well that was my August in a nutshell. But it's September now and I have plenty of things to tell you about next time! Oh man it's good to be back!
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