there have been some dangerously yuppie exploits described here lately. high-brow ethics seminars, climbing professional ladders, wearing decent shoes out to dinner... we can't pretend it doesn't happen. i confess my ridiculous excitement about the upcoming opening of a whole foods in the south loop.
now, i don't apologize for the yuppie leanings: last weekend's co-worker birthday expedition to the all-you-can-eat chocolate feast at the peninsula hotel was sooooooooooo delicious and fun! plus i think my blogmate might have had enough of quick-shot's pre-chocolate bar drinks that she managed to spill just enough of the evening on her dress to keep us all from being too classy. :) but i am saying that every good yuppie needs to balance a little. so this weekend mb and i are heading back to wisconsin for some much-anticipated brunch at the come-back inn, and an afternoon of a clearly non-yuppie sport: booze-cruising on his parents' pontoon boat on a small lake near madison.
my excitement about this weekend's plans reminds me that you can take the girl out of the boondocks, but you can't take the boondocks out of the girl... while discussing my weekend plans with a chicago-native co-worker, she looked at me blankly and said "what's a pontoon?" riiiiiiight. because when lake michigan is your lake, you ride on sailboats and large watercraft, and have probably never heard of a party barge. the polite-but-disinterested look i got when describing an entire afternoon of floating around with cheap beer made me feel like maybe i'm not too much of a city girl yet, in spite of the pedicures and new non-ripped jeans and all. good thing.
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ah, the party barge. if an afternnon of quality drinking in the sun while sitting atop 650 acres of water is wrong, i don't want to be right.
i've determined that due to my new lakeside locale, if i had a "booze-cruiser" of my own, i would use it every day after work, and would most like be a sunburned alcoholic at this point. sometimes, it's the dreams that get you by...
Nothing better than drinking a beer while floating in the middle of the lake. Well, there is, but it does rank high on my list.
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