Out on the Town!

Andrew and I had a great time yesterday! Well, I probably had a better time than he did since he had to work on homework most of the day but it still ended on a good note. Andrew had to head down to the school to work on some homework and I discovered that where I need to get my license changed over is in the same area. I thought that maybe I needed to get it done for my Temp Agency interview so we rode the bus together and then split ways. It took me a while to find the building, and when I did I was informed that I had to go to a different building for something like that. So I decided to go explore the big wide city! There was SO much to see. I took a handful of pictures of the fountains, buildings, and artwork around. I took a picture of the Blues House and some church, the Vietnam memorial, and things at Millennium Park. I'm pretty sure I walked quite a few miles. Luckily, I've been trying to keep up with working out so I didn't have to pay the price the next day. There is also a huge Art Festival going on this weekend! I checked out a lot of it and had to keep reminding myself that someday I can buy all the pretty things I want. That someday just isn't now >< . Still, seeing all that neat stuff woke up part of my artistic side and I've got a couple of projects in mind that I wouldn't mind trying my hand at. We'll see if my ambitiousness actually gets anywhere. When Andrew and I met up again we both stopped at the Art Festival so I could show him the Dick Blick booth (it's a store he buys his art supplies from) and they have a wheel that you can win free stuff. I won him a free marker (whoo hoo!) and he went back today and got a coupon for 30% off! I also won a $1 off on Dairy Queen. Not that I know of any around here. We're planning on going back on Sunday so we can both check out the booths and what they have and try to win some more coupons.

When we got home we got changed and headed out to take a bike ride. We were out riding for over an hour. It was fantastic! We literally live in a great spot. If you head East, you hit the lake. If you go West you hit City. If you go North you find parks and open fields of grass. South is beach and Navy Pier! We had a great time riding and we're hoping to go out everyday if we can. Granted, it's raining today and for most of this next week....*sigh*

Today Andrew had an interview at a Borders! Woot! I tagged along cuz I am tired of being stuck in the apartment. I also got a call from the temp agency about my application and assessment tests. Turns out I need to work on my 10 key numeric a bit but otherwise it seems I did pretty well. They said I can retake the test when I show up for our interview on Tuesday. Yeah for a step forward!

As a treat to ourselves, Andrew and I went to eat at Panda Express and took our lunch to the Millennium Park. That was wonderful. It's a tad windy but it's finally crawling up to be 70 degrees. We sat on a wall and ate our lunch and I tempted some birds to us by feeding them. I can see why people have fun feeding them. Andrew said I reminded him of the Mary Poppins's song 'Tuppence'.