Friday we left Minneapolis by 8 am en route to Chicago, via Madison, WI. This was a travel day that included travel bingo (yep dad, I played while driving), visiting another university, and a lot of sleep (I was hopped up on G2's and beef jerky to save off sleepiness).
About 4 hours into the trip, we made it to our first destination, the University of Wisconsin.
I had always wanted to visit this college because they play football in the early game on ESPN or ABC almost every Saturday, and I love watching college football. Oh, yeah, and they also are one of the most liberal campuses in the nation, and it showed. First of all, while there were people out and about at U of Minn, they were all fully clothed. At U of W, almost half of the people outside, really, were in various states of undress. There were many people sunbathing on any patch of grass they could find, including the main grass "walk" in the main part of campus, while others were studying or playing frisbee and catching some rays. The campus was very crowded and lively, which left Lou and me not really wanting to see how crowded it would be during a regular session. Anyway, the campus had some really pretty buildings, and some really ugly ones as well. Finally, the campus is on the shores of Lake Mendota--beautiful.
After leaving Madison, we jammed as quickly as possible to Chicago. We arrived at 4 in the pm. The hotel is nice, but the coolest thing here is the national junior bodybuidling championships is going on right now. There are some wildly gigantic men and women here. Some look great, and some look unreal. BTW, most of them have an orangey-dark tint. In fact, I missed my turn when we were driving into the parking lot because I was watching one of the women posing on the side of the road for a photo shoot. Lou is wonderfully understanding, and for that I am forever grateful...
For dinner, we ate Gino's East. We had the Meaty Legend Chicago-style pizza. TREMENDOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The BEST part of Chicago, no doubt.
-Dave
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