{"id":1440,"date":"2013-04-15T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2013-04-15T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:24:00","slug":"weekend-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/weekend-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took another quick weekend out to Naperville, IL for my entertainment the last few days. \u00a0Didn’t do a whole lot, just sort of relaxed. \u00a0Donette is out of town for three weeks straight, so Friday I dropped the pup off with her parents and flew out to Midway airport to meet her. \u00a0Upon my arrival we headed straight to Giordano’s Pizza<\/a> for some dinner. \u00a0It clearly states on the menu that the medium is for 4-6 people, but I had my doubts and ordered that size anyway. \u00a0Turns out they may be familiar with their product, as we didn’t even finish half of it. \u00a0Not to worry, it provided breakfast for the rest of the weekend.<\/p>\n

Saturday we got a late start, as we had a remarkably difficult time deciding what we wanted to do. \u00a0Some KC friends were also in town so we considered heading downtown to meet up. \u00a0The weather was not cooperative though; it was raining off and on and quite cold. \u00a0As I only brought shorts with me, this somewhat limited my options on entertainment. \u00a0After not-too-much debate, we decided to just hang out in the west ‘burbs where we were staying, which provided plenty of entertainment for me. \u00a0(Being one of rather low entertainment requirements.) \u00a0We checked out the local attractions online, and decided on trying to catch the nearby\u00a0Two Brothers Brewery<\/a> tour. \u00a0Our original plan was to eat lunch and then take the late tour. \u00a0When we sat down though, our waitress offered to get us into the early group, and even saved our table while we toured. \u00a0It was a great tour, I like seeing the setups at the smaller breweries. \u00a0You could tell they were very proud of their product and it looks like they are supported very well in the local area. \u00a0We went through all their recently expanded operations, which allows them to produce 30,000 barrels a year. \u00a0By comparison, Boulevard is now at 600,000 barrels a year, so they are definitely a bit smaller. \u00a0After the tour we had a tasty lunch in their attached restaurant, then headed off for some light shopping, as I had grudgingly conceded I was going to require some pants before the weekend was out. \u00a0We met up with some of Donette’s local friends for dinner at a place called Heaven on Seven<\/a>. \u00a0Whew, it was delicious. \u00a0I opted for the\u00a0Oysters Ravigote, a nicely spiced linguine dish. \u00a0I have to admit the horseradish sauce threw me off for a while, but it grew on me the more I ate. \u00a0After dinner we met another couple at a nearby Bar Louie<\/a> location. \u00a0It was all good until about 10:00 or so, when suddenly the music (and I use that term loosely) hit a deafening level. \u00a0Time for the old folks to take their leave, BAIL!!<\/p>\n

Sunday didn’t bring much entertainment; \u00a0I don’t like doing anything on travel days. \u00a0The weather was much more tolerable, so we headed to downtown Naperville to walk around. \u00a0We stopped in Jimmy’s Grill<\/a> for a nice lunch, then just walked about and enjoyed the sun. \u00a0Headed to the airport around 3:00 and called it a trip. \u00a0By all reports Teagan managed to behave herself while we were out, always a grave concern. \u00a0Kane on the other hand… \u00a0Ohhhhh poor little Kane. \u00a0One of the (few) positive attributes of a cat is that you can reportedly leave them for some period of time without any supervision. \u00a0This may be the case as far as basic survival is concerned, but rest assured there is a price to be paid. \u00a0That cat throws a fit that would do a two-year-old child proud. \u00a0There will be a few more sleepless nights at the house while he continues to loudly voice his displeasure at being left alone, then he’ll get back into his routine around Thursday or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took another quick weekend out to Naperville, IL for my entertainment the last few days. \u00a0Didn’t do a whole lot, just sort of relaxed. \u00a0Donette is out of town for three weeks straight, so Friday I dropped the pup off with her parents and flew out to Midway airport to meet her. \u00a0Upon my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}