Protesters, New Cafes and Insane People...yup Another City Trip!

        Hello all! Well it has been awhile hasn't it? (Sorry about that again!) So I went to the City this weekend (October 7-9) and it was a much needed escape from reality as usual. This time around I stayed in the loop; instead of University Village, with my friends that go to Roosevelt University and being in the Loop has its advantages. After grabbing my fall usual from Starbucks (pumpkin spice latte) I meet up with friends from UIC and we walked the couple blocks to my friends dorm. We all headed to Chipotle (oh how I love them!) for dinner and after a walk back to their dorm to pick up another friend and a CTA pass we all went to The Cheesecake Factory for dessert. I had been looking forward to October for the pumpkin cheesecake...I ended up getting the pumpkin pecan cheesecake, but it definitely didn't let me down. We popped into a H&M on the way back, but the rest of the night was pretty relaxed and involved watching an entire half season of The Walking Dead.
         Saturday morning we could hear the Occupy movement chanting 'we are the 99%' from our 11th floor window...it was interesting. After getting ready (and dragging in our friends from UIC) we all headed out to the Lincoln Park Zoo...in time for when it says it is closed...but it WAS still open. After some animal watching and people watching (we saw a wedding party) I googled some places to eat...and after failing to decide, but noticing everything seemed to be on Clark (that sounded good), we just walked in that direction. We happened upon a Cosi Cafe that turned out to be delicious and reasonably priced (well sort of...it is the city...) place to eat. It had a great ambiance...until what appeared to be a normal man ordering coffee started making strange noises at us...touched the one female with us, prompting us to leave and then following us until we crossed the street. After walking briskly towards our bus stop...and ending up feeling like we were in a horror movie since it was dark we had to walk through a park setting and there was a squeaking swing we all headed back to the twins' dorm (my friends from Roosevelt). After watching the Titanic and part of Coyote Ugly (I know SUPER random, but we roll like that) and some delicious pizza from the twins' friend IHOP was mentioned and we decided a late night trip was necessary (I know I know we are some fat asses, but...breakfast is yummmy okayyy).
          IHOP, in boystown, at 1230am is a very interesting experience that is needed at some point in your life. After massive amounts of coffee and some crepes and the waiter making several hilarious mistakes we headed back to the Red Line. On the Red Line a guy sitting across from me talked to me...those from the city know that is odd and unwelcomed. Anyhow I forgot to mention earlier the horrifying moment on the way TO IHOP where the EL changed to an express suddenly (after an announcement NOONE could possibly understand) and we all freaked out as it skipped 5 or 7 stops...thankfully slowing down a few stops before ours.
        The rest of the night involved a nice sleep over and the next day really only consisted of breakfast and me rushing to a train...that ended up being delayed anyhow. Well that was my weekend, how was your weekend? I will try to keep more to the point, but I figured since I hadn't said anything in awhile I would just detail my weekend (I will try to post more often!) Well enjoy and have a great week!