My town offers a variety of entertainment options. There are several gas stations you can visit, a McDonalds and Burger King which stay open sometimes as late as 10pm, and fields of corn. I think there are some cows too but they try to keep a low profile. Normally this is no big deal in the summer when between my day job and DJing weddings I use my free time to catch up on my blinking. But when vacation rolls around I feel strangely compelled to get the hell out of Dodge.

My parents and sister live on the north side of Chicago which is darn convenient – free crash pad! If you can’t use your family, who can you use? Oh yeah it is nice to see them and stuff too. So girlfriend and I hopped in the car Friday and headed west.

So much to do here, yet afterwards when people ask what we did, girlfriend and I often respond “derr?” So we decided to document our days this time. For an accurate account of the trip with things like “details” go see hers at . For me details are just the fluffy things on desquirrels.

So Day 1 – girlfriend had stores to hit so she could use bought products for the rest of the trip. Off to Sephora we went. They have makeup – every and all kinds of makeup, anything you need to get the look you are going for. The also have a loan officer standing by to help you get that look in 95 simple payments.

I’m all about my girl looking good, hell yeah! But the whole making up process itself is mind numbing for me, so after 40 minutes in this store I was cursing the day of my birth. I expressed this by using makeup samples to draw frowny faces on my arm. The worst part was everytime we seemed to be heading to the cash register, she would remember something else she needed. I did everything I could to hold back the tears.

In all fairness though, she had been looking forward to this months. Now that she is gainfully employed she has money to play with. She is finally able to get the things she used to sadly pine for. I remembered when I was finally able to get a Gamecube, Playstation 2 and X-box just because I could – it’s a good feeling. We agreed though that on any future visits, I would spend my time at the nearby Lego store

On to the Lush store. I had actually been curious about this one. One of her LJ friends from over the pond once sent her a Lush massage bar and that’s all it took to create addiction. Not just her either. Call me a girlyman if you want but Lush is the shiz-nit! But after a million years at Sephora, I feared I was burned out. The Lush store kicked ass though. Piles and piles of bath stuff in tons of different scents – it was a nasal adventure. Like a good metrosexual I got a sample of some coconut almond body scrub. But I still like Football really!

Later that night, the main even: Blue Man Group!

Cab ride to the theater: $10
Center ailse seats four rows back from the stage: $112
Staring up at a Blue Man’s ass while he uses your head for balance: priceless

Show was just everything I could have hoped for – no real words for it, just something you have to experience for yourself.

Afterwords girl friend got a Blueman to pose with her stuffed bunny, Bonnie. Check out her site next week for the pic!

So ended Day 1.

Folks are waiting for us at their firework stakeout, so it’s off to Day 2!

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