Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 9:13 PM

Chicago Chronicles part 3

Monday November 24Th 2003, it's 1.49Pm om Michigan AV. 27 degrees.

There are days when you wake up in the morning in such a good mood that it makes it hard to believe it can go wrong.

This weekend for instance. Generally 2 days long, but this one felt like eternity.

Saturday, November 22ND, early start at 5Am. We had a co-worker (Chris), to drop off at the airport and in exchange he'll lent us his car for the weekend....( Are you for real?? French people would have never done that!!! I barely trust my mother..). So anyway that screamed ROAD TRIP!!!
Back home, first obstacle is parking.Chicago is an awesome city...to walk in.But a nigthmare if you have a car to park.The lack of parking and mostly the price of public parking ($27/day or $15/h) sounded outrageous to us. $15 here, $20 there, well that car cost us quite some money.
The gas also was insane!!! I really thought there was a leak somewhere, we spend 40 dollars in gas over the weekend. We didn't even leave Chicago.
Well we couldn't really...the day after having the car I've noticed it wasn't where I parked it.Some people called "Towing trucks company" were kind enough to move it a little further ( like 5 miles away) and park it for us in a $165/Day parking.How lovely...
And of course it would have been way too easy to just go , pay the fine and get the car back, Nope..since we were not the owners of the vehicle we couldn't. It was quite hard but after some negotiations we finally got the car and left it in our building parking till Chris comes back.
Back into the apartment we started notice a smell.Not like a burn smell or anything like that, more like a shit smell...The toilet was clogged and had overflowed.Charming.After that the bathroom has never been that clean!Now to resume we have a car we can't enjoy that cost us more than a week of car rent, and we have to go to the Starbucks next door if we wanna use the bathroom..Awesome.
Alright I'm just gonna go do some shopping, it's getting cold and I need a hat, I guess I'll go to H&M since I'm now broke.
I hope you guys had a better Weekend.
XOXO
Christophe