February 20, 2010

I slept until 11 today, and got up around 11:30. It felt so good to catch up on sleep! After a very late breakfast, Carrie and I went for a 3 1/2 mile run along the river. I think it will always be my favorite place to run, for forever! After that we showered and had lunch. We had a barbeque type soup with some type of meat in it. Later Carrie and I really wanted to go back outside because it was such a gorgeous day so we went back to the river and painted our toe nails and did some homework. People were looking at us like we were crazy, but I'm pretty used to it, being that I'm a blonde american and all! That night we met Arielle and took the metra to Nervion Plaza. It was my first time on the metra there, and it was really nice. It's just new this year so it's in really nice condition, and it's very clean! The plaza was really cool, and the city outside felt like Chicago to me! We heard there was a TGI Friday's there, and we were craving some good chicago food, so that was the main reason we went there. However; the food was more expensive there than it is in Chicago. The burgers, after converting euro to dollar, would end up being around $17!!! There is no way I would EVER pay that much for a cheeseburger, so sadly we left and went to the McDonald's next store. We made up for it later by going to the starbucks and getting a piece of chocolate cake! After that it was getting late so we took the metra back. I had heard from some other students that there is free salsa dancing on the weekends at a local restaurant, Azucar, so Arielle and I met around 11:45 because we thought it started at 12. It actually ended up starting at 12:30, and we didn't see any other students show up. It seemed really cool, but I don't know how to salsa dance, so I wasn't all that eager to get up and start dancing without some lessons first. It was cool though, and we're hoping to go another time if we can get a bigger group together. We watched for a while, and then left around 1:45. I got back at 2 and was dead tired and went to bed!