A walk through the hood

It was a beautiful day in Chicago today with bright sunshine and upper 40's. Yes, my bar for what a beautiful day is drops dramatically during these colder months. The mission for the day: find someone to fix my leather glove which had the thread come undone along a seam. It seemed to me that this is something a dry cleaner thrives on right? Alterations, repairs and the like are advertised all over their steamy windows. No such luck at the first two I tried though. Huh? The second one, and a customer at Starbucks, said I should try a shoe repair place. Really? Ok. So I continued walking down the street to the shoe repair guy.

He took a look and said I should try this other dry cleaner further down the street.

Fine, but I just went to two dry cleaners and they said to come here!

"We can't help you, so try the cleaners."

Dandy. So I walked there and they will indeed fix it. The trip left me much further away from home than I was planning though. Fortunately it was such a nice day that it was a pleasure to be out and about. Boy I miss summer!

On my journey I snapped this picture. Yep, there's a Five Guys hamburger joint opening up just a few blocks away. Ugh. Not sure if I can deal with the temptation.

And here are the pictures of the Patschki's we ate on Fat Tuesday. Delicious. They truly were delightful.