Paul, myself, and our friends Beth and Tyler decided to plan a weekend in Chicago since it was roughly half way for all of us. Beth used to be in my guard unit with me and moved to IN for Tyler's job. We had not seen each other for some time, so we planned a little get together only to find out a week before our trip that because of Tyler's job they will be moving back to WI by the middle of Nov. We decided to keep the weekend plans because of reservations and well, we all needed a short get away.
First stop for Friday night was Roof lounge. It's in The Wit Doubletree hotel on the 27th floor. I had read it was a "must-do".
It's a nice place only lit by the city lights, candles, and fire. Half of it is open and the other half is under a roof. The part that is under the roof is all couches and chairs. The part that is open keeps patrons warm with heaters and fire in the middle of a long table.
I may be smiling in this picture, but I surely wasn't smiling as I was trying to chug choke down the horrible mixed drinks. Mixed drinks were decently priced for a big city at $14 a drink, which wouldn't of been bad had they been drinkable.
Part of the city view
The fire table that is in the middle of the room in the part that is outside.
Dinner at Signature on the 95th. (this was Sat. night)
This restaurant is on the 95th floor of the John Hancock building. When making reservations you cannot reserve a window table. You have to ask for it when you arrive for your reservations. We asked how long of a wait it was for a window seat, thinking 15 minutes or so...it was a staggering 45 min wait on top of having reservations, so we passed. We waited roughly 5-10 minutes to get a table and to our surprise ended up with a window seat!
The food selection was decent as was the drink menu. I would of liked to have seen more non-meat dinners myself as there were only two. I ended up getting a pasta with root vegetable bolognese. I honestly couldn't rave about it. The presentation of it was very good, but the quality was just not there. Most of my noodles were al dente, which was fine, but some were also hard. Paul and Tyler got the surf n turf and both raved about how delicious it was. Beth got a chicken dish that she also raved about. I decided to get dessert to make up for my poor dinner. I got the pumpkin pudding bread with caramel ice cream. It was very good...Thankfully!
I had to laugh at Beth because she decided to get a "glass" of wine for her dessert. It came out and was about two sips for $12. I had to tell her that is what a true glass of wine is...especially in restaurants. I was going to take pictures of my meal and dessert, but Paul was rather embarrassed by it, so I decided to be nice and spare him the embarrassment.
We had a corner window table so we got double the view. This was looking straight forward from where we were sitting. The our left was the Navy Pier.
After dinner we decided to try out a dueling piano bar called "Howl At The Moon". It was crowded, but worth it. The pianist took requests and then played them on the pianos.
We, I mean I, decided to get a bucket to share since price wise it made sense. Beth on the other hand thought we were each getting our own! Neither one of us would of been walking out of there had we followed her words. Definitely a bar I would go to again.
and then we had to have some photo ops!
After dinner, before the bar, we went to a Blue Man Group Show. Highly recommend one if you have never seen them. Very entertaining!
Beth ordered the tickets through ticket master and just put "best available". Well, when we got there we found out we were in the poncho area. Meaning, if you've never been to one, that you have a good chance of getting splattered with there props. We didn't get anything on us, Beth got a little on her (we believe it was banana) and Tyler didn't get anything but a butt in the face due to them doing something to the guy in front of him.
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