4girls and a 4runner: Lake Forest, IL, to Winnetka, IL, to CHITOWN

We love Chicago. MADELYNNE'Z BIRTHDAY LFG!!!!! Lets ROCKKKK!!! LETS FREAK OUT!!! Anyway, we arrived in Winnetka this morning to a kitchen full of local Winnetkians and hugo spritzz with a special surprised for Madelynne--a candle! Hooray!!!

Francie GHOAT

All we know about today is that we are not allowed to put ketchup on our Chicago hot dogs or we will get jumped. We also took Corinne out for a test drive. We like her. We will keep her. We also informed her that she is credited for this blog and our about me page that is only slightly concerning.

Francie's girl friends and one boy friend? We cannot really remember his name but we liked him. He came with me to buy my new hat, more on this later. He definitely wanted a girlfriend so bad. Anyways, on our way to the train station we passed by this temple, and there is only one of them per continent:

Ambiguous Temple

I don't know what temple it's for. I think it might be entirely insignificant but it's right here and it's very big. Then, we got on the train, before getting off ten minutes later and bribing the ticket guy with a $20 to let us into the bathroom (authorized personnel only) and would you look at that, he took the bribe! (the world is so corrupt these days). Back on the train, a few JUNIORS in high school got on (heavy emphasis on juniors) that Francie used to babysit, so she said "OMG are yall graduating 8th grade now???" to which one of them, flying up with a hip pop and starbucks pink drink (100% spiked, no one drinks those they are repulsive and also uncaffeinated) "I FEAR we are JUNIORS" and after that, things just got tense. SO awkward. We needed to leave. I am terrified of high schoolers they are evil. We should consider sedating them.

Once we got off the train, we walked by some janky bar, the Dugout, and Corinne told us that is where she went the day before and everyone was at max 16 and bought all of her drinks. Life hack.

We enter the game, an hour and a half late, we don't notice. We love baseball and hot dogs.

Baseball players doing baseball

Girls watching baseball players doing baseball

Louisa was ecstatic about her new hat purchase. She texted her aunt immediately. She was also ecstatic. Unfortuneately, Louisa's country upbringing prevented her from proper hat etiquette.

THIS IS FALSE I was sitting their inhaling my hot dog and Francies ONE BOY FRIEND started yelling at me to flip my hat inside out or we would lose. SO, being the team player I am, I DID THAT. I did NOT realize NO ONE ELSE WAS.

Even more unfortunately, the Cubs still lost. And Louisa still looks like an idiot.

Louisa putting shame on her family name

At least she tried, though.

Now that we're all putting each other on blast, here's Madelynne singing.

that wasn't even that embarassing. I hate you.

Time to go out!

So cute. Zooweemama.

Music scene outside Wrigley Field

We first popped over to a lil spot with red horns and sparkly Pink Pony Club drinks in mason jars. Louisa would like a kitchen of strictly mason jars. All was good, especially this one guy who kept reappearing, and in his final appearance he just showed up to our table with a long string of straws he had stuck together and just poked it at Corinne until she would grab the other end. She did not know what was going on. Then again, when was the last time you got a straw sword waved in your face. But it was an invitation to do the LIMBOOOOO. Highlights included when someone yelled make it lower, so that it was a foot off the ground (possibly 3, MAYBE 4), and Francie took on this challenge.

No comment.

I'm not even going to lie and say this was a success. But we are impressed by the perserverence nonetheless. But after this act, we needed to see ourselves out. So we went to go to the local favorite (for every high schooler in Chicago) THE DUGOUT. What exists at this bar you may ask? A retired high school teacher on the piano, a posse of his students in costume and props that keep spawning out of nowhere, a random taxadermy wolf???? and various young couples hiding in the stairwell to suck face (and when we exited, pretended to be lost and locked inside and suffering...."You saved us!!!" From what? Sin? GIRL. I hate to break it to you but we are NOT in Cin-city (sin city))

High school teacher shredding The Devil Went Down to Georgia

Taxidermy zombie wolf in stairwell with bike.

Girl posing outside of bar

At this point, we bid Corinne and boy friend farewell, and he bought her many tiki hut Cutwaters and just dished out the goss. The rest of us headed over to Al's for a cheesy fry. Louisa found her long lost chili cheese dog, and that's when she knew, she would need to live here (insert immediate text to roommate Libby to look into study abroad programs in Chicago).

You want a piece of this.

This would be the beginning of a series of meals. We soon went home, to order a pizza and salad. Then we went back to uber eats to order another pizza and pasta to the tune of The Proposal (new favorite movie) and Legally Blonde. Even better we got to dish out even more juicy goss with Francie's fam.