Summer Vacation Part One: Chi-town
Hello There!
Let the countdown to the new semester begin!
You may have read in my previous blog, Tuesday’s Daydream, about my end-of-the-summer Chicago/North Carolina extravaganza! I do not even know where to begin explaining this awesome trip, but I’ll try anyways!
Chi-town
Originally, my roommate and I just wanted to head up to Chicago to do some relaxing and sightseeing. However, midway into our planning process, we discovered that Lollapalooza, a three-day concert, would be going on during our stay in the Windy City.
Here was the line-up that originally inspired me to drop over $200 on a three-day pass:
-Vampire Weekend
-Coheed and Cambria
-Cold War Kids
-Kid Cudi
-Silversun Pickups
-Snoop Dogg
-Yeah Yeah Yeahs
-Kings of Leon
-The Killers
Among others!
Our trip began with Friday’s (interesting) trip on the Megabus!
We arrived in Chicago with enough time to change and run to Lollapalooza to meet some old friends from high school! There were soooo many people crammed into Grant Park! The entire night was filled with awesome music and the best part was the end of the show when everyone flooded the streets of downtown Chicago!!
The insane amount of people crammed into one place!
The next few days were filled with more concert experiences and nightlife than I can fit into this blog. However, I did get to see some amazing sights, eat great food, (Pizza Uno) and hang out with a ton of friends that I didn’t expect to see. Even though I can’t describe every band we watched, the two I really enjoyed were Vampire Weekend and Snoop Dogg, for different reasons.
Vampire Weekend is one of my favorite bands and the best thing about watching them live is their sound quality. They sound just like they do on their original recordings and they get everyone involved in their set.
Snoop Dogg was awesome to see purely for the fact that he is such a huge hip-hop star/icon. The best thing about his performance is that he got the crowd so pumped up during each song and left them wanting more!
The only downfall of the entire trip was the fact that I didn’t get to see my cousin. I had called to meet up with him and found out that he had clipped a fence riding his bike to work, causing him to break his arm. He had to head back to Pennsylvania shortly after that for some much needed recovery time.
I was extremely sad to leave Chi-town, however, I was super excited for my motorcycle trip to Deals Gap, AKA the Dragon the next day.
More on that part of the trip in my next blog!
August 22nd, 2009at 2:29 pm
Hey Roamin Romagni, How bout you roam on over to your cell phone and give me a call!!!
By the way your article was well done. I learned more about your trip from a short blog then I did the whole time you were home. Glad you had such a great time. Love You, Madre
August 26th, 2009at 12:12 pm
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