Weekend before last ushered in some beautiful weather and we decided to spend all day Saturday outside our apartment. We started off by walking over the the Fixx Coffee House, a locally owned coffee shop in our neighborhood. There were few people there that early on Saturday morning, so it turned out to be a great space for some peaceful reading. At about 11:30 a lot more people started showing up so we headed off to Penny's Noodle Shop for lunch, probably our favorite Thai restaurant here in Chicago, just a few blocks further down on Diversey and Sheffield. From there we went shopping down on Clark Street, hanging out in various bookstores and picking up a new pair of gym shoes for the triathlon training. In the late afternoon we stopped in at the Landmark Theatres to see a very quiet but compelling movie, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation. This is a Brazilian film set in the dictatorship period in 1970, the year that Brazil also won the World Cup (in soccer) led by the great Pele. This film chronicles a boy's coming of age during that time when his secular leftist parents are forced underground ("on vacation") and he must find his place the jewish community of his grandfather, who passes away upon his arrival. After the movie, we walked up to Mama Desta's Red Sea Ethiopian Restaurant (blogged here earlier) for an excellent dinner, and then finally made our way home, exhausted but happy with our day trip around the neighborhood.
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Hey that comment already here by akinogal is spam at the very least...
Anyway. I have never been to Penny's. Hmmm. I'll have to check it out.
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