Last week, the American Political Science Association came to Chicago for its annual meeting, which was held downtown at the Sheraton and the Hyatt on the River. It's a big meeting of about 
7 - 8,000 political scientists. This year's theme was interdisciplinarity, hence the theme, Political Science and Beyond. It reminded me of Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story who often said "to infinity and beyond."
It was great to see several friends from Athens, as well as a number of other parts of the country. Julie and Annie came up to our place and visited for a while, and then we came down to have dinner with them at Gino's East, a pizza place close to their hotel. Annie has grown alot in the few months that we've been gone!
It was also great to see Vince and Mariel who joined us for dinner a great new restaurant we discovered called Nacionale 27 down on West Superior Street. This venue features food from a variety of (all 27)Latin American countries and may well be our favorite restaurant so far in Chicago. We started out with a few appetizers that were gratis from the restaurant and they were out of this world -- a spicy / bbq scallop combination and a smoky mussel combo that were both fantastic. We added a few of our own that featured goat cheese and pumpkin that were also very good. We each had various fish entrees which were also good, but the appetizers were the real star of this show, along with great flan for dessert. The prices were moderate for this quality of food. We'll definitely return here sometime soon!
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