Wednesday November 18, 2009.
Chicago.
Life In The Fast Lane!
I want to provide some more details on the trip to C-town. I've edited this a couple of times as Blogger keeps messing with me on the size of print after that original posting of the first picture. If there are some Word protocols that they follow here, I haven't figured them out.
How did the timing work out? Pretty suite. No trouble with the flight. Departed Davenport around 1530. The driver was waiting for us at the private terminal at Midway (Are you Bill?), and he got us through traffic to the Near North area for pre-dinner cocktails at Kiki's French Bistro.
I want to provide some more details on the trip to C-town. I've edited this a couple of times as Blogger keeps messing with me on the size of print after that original posting of the first picture. If there are some Word protocols that they follow here, I haven't figured them out.
How did the timing work out? Pretty suite. No trouble with the flight. Departed Davenport around 1530. The driver was waiting for us at the private terminal at Midway (Are you Bill?), and he got us through traffic to the Near North area for pre-dinner cocktails at Kiki's French Bistro.
What was it all about? The four of us were celebrating our 25th year in business to
gether. My pal Bill and I wanted to do something way out of the ordinary.
And the planning? All Bill and myself. The girls were not told anything other than that we would be going out to celebrate with a nice dinner. Bill may have got a little help from a friend who does some party planning. LAM and TDS claim that they were totally surprised when we drove up to the Davenport airport.
And the private plane? Well, we wanted to do something out of the ordinary. It's not like it was the jet or anything. We chartered the cheapest King Air in my pal Roy's fleet. It seats like eight or nine. Took about 40 minutes from Davenport to Midway.
Dinner? We ate at what I would call a medium high-end place call "mk" in the 800 block of North Franklin. I'd say the food was ok (notice the lower case), and the wine was excellent. We couldn't tarry, as we had a 7:30 show to catch at the Apollo Theater in the 2500 block of North Lincoln Avenue.
And the show? Worth the price of admission. The Million Dollar Quartet. One of the more enjoyable live events that I have been to in a while. We were about six rows up, center stage in a 40% full 450 person theater. See chart attached.Google the name for s
ome details, as the show is based on a real ev
ent. It
's probably got some legs for theaters on the coasts.
The homeward leg of the trip? Piece of cake. The driver (different guy and vehicle, same "Are you Bill" question) was waiting for us outside the theater. Easy trip (with no traffic at that hour) to the airport. Our pilot was waiting, and we were in the air in about 10 minutes. Another 40 and we were back home.
So that's about it. Sorry for doing a "What I did today" entry, but the event was worthy of recording. Another element in what has been a great year for Lt. PC.
Now with a return to normalcy, let me just say...
BCOT
gether. My pal Bill and I wanted to do something way out of the ordinary.And the planning? All Bill and myself. The girls were not told anything other than that we would be going out to celebrate with a nice dinner. Bill may have got a little help from a friend who does some party planning. LAM and TDS claim that they were totally surprised when we drove up to the Davenport airport.
And the private plane? Well, we wanted to do something out of the ordinary. It's not like it was the jet or anything. We chartered the cheapest King Air in my pal Roy's fleet. It seats like eight or nine. Took about 40 minutes from Davenport to Midway.
Dinner? We ate at what I would call a medium high-end place call "mk" in the 800 block of North Franklin. I'd say the food was ok (notice the lower case), and the wine was excellent. We couldn't tarry, as we had a 7:30 show to catch at the Apollo Theater in the 2500 block of North Lincoln Avenue.
And the show? Worth the price of admission. The Million Dollar Quartet. One of the more enjoyable live events that I have been to in a while. We were about six rows up, center stage in a 40% full 450 person theater. See chart attached.Google the name for s
ome details, as the show is based on a real ev
ent. It
's probably got some legs for theaters on the coasts.The homeward leg of the trip? Piece of cake. The driver (different guy and vehicle, same "Are you Bill" question) was waiting for us outside the theater. Easy trip (with no traffic at that hour) to the airport. Our pilot was waiting, and we were in the air in about 10 minutes. Another 40 and we were back home.
So that's about it. Sorry for doing a "What I did today" entry, but the event was worthy of recording. Another element in what has been a great year for Lt. PC.
Now with a return to normalcy, let me just say...
BCOT
2 comments:
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