So, we went back in November, despite Jeremy’s concerns that I would hate it the second time around. While walking 20 miles through the city, we found lots of things that both surprised and excited us…..they are as follows….

People actually push babies around in strollers in frigid weather!

There are true Southerners in the Clemson alumni group…and of course we all know someone who knows someone (we are from S.C. after all!).

The “El” has “pretend” heaters…who knew?!? We were very excited about them until we found out they sucked!

We used hand sanitizer more than ever!

It seems every time we visit (which has only been twice) there is abnormally warm weather, which gives us a very misconstrued idea of what life will be like there!

Turns out the price of milk and coke are slightly higher.

There is no pizza in West Loop.

Half of Chicagoans must have come from the North Pole, given the fact they wear shorts and skirts in frigid weather!

We left the hotel the second day, walked a block, thought we could handle the cold, and one block later turned around to get more clothes/gloves/scarves, etc…we’ve got a lot of adjusting to do.

So….it appears it really is a windy city, and boy the wind was cold!

Tri-Taylor is in fact not up and coming.

We have already taken our obligatory wrong way ride on the El headed toward the burbs instead of downtown.

My nose will be eternally red in this city

Also, I still liked it!