Fantastic voyage
This weekend I embarked on a fantastic voyage to the windy city. At 2 am on Saturday morning two physics grads and two astro grads piled into a Subaru Outback and headed west. Eleven hours later after braving thick fog, sweater-wearing reindeer and many cups of coffee later, we arrived in Chicago.
Now the whole motivation for this fantastic voyage was to surprise a former Cornell astronomer who recently started grad school at the University of Chicago. We had to be devious and cleaver to avoid spoiling the surprise. And in the end we were successful. She was quite shocked when the four of us walked around the corner in the pizza place. After eating way too much Chicago stuffed pizza and finishing off two bottles of wine, we headed to Millennium Park via Starbuck's. In Millennium Park we found a giant, metallic bean. It was pretty awesome. Especially in our half-delirious states brought on by wine and too little sleep.
Saturday involved a trip to the Shedd Aquarium. Always, always entertaining. Dinner was a massive meal at a Mediterranean place with the world's best hummus.
At around 10 pm we piled back in the car, and headed east.
A breakfast stop in the Corning historic district turned out to be both delicious and entertaining beyond all expectations thanks to a small-town diner run by an energetic woman named Donna. It helped that we were all exhausted and just about anything was funny. Even Lake Michigan.
Finally we returned to Ithaca and the end of the fantastic voyage. It was the vacation that I'd been needing for weeks. Now it's time to focus. The Q-exam is in one week and classes start in 10 days or so. Where or where has the summer gone?
Now the whole motivation for this fantastic voyage was to surprise a former Cornell astronomer who recently started grad school at the University of Chicago. We had to be devious and cleaver to avoid spoiling the surprise. And in the end we were successful. She was quite shocked when the four of us walked around the corner in the pizza place. After eating way too much Chicago stuffed pizza and finishing off two bottles of wine, we headed to Millennium Park via Starbuck's. In Millennium Park we found a giant, metallic bean. It was pretty awesome. Especially in our half-delirious states brought on by wine and too little sleep.
Saturday involved a trip to the Shedd Aquarium. Always, always entertaining. Dinner was a massive meal at a Mediterranean place with the world's best hummus.
At around 10 pm we piled back in the car, and headed east.
A breakfast stop in the Corning historic district turned out to be both delicious and entertaining beyond all expectations thanks to a small-town diner run by an energetic woman named Donna. It helped that we were all exhausted and just about anything was funny. Even Lake Michigan.
Finally we returned to Ithaca and the end of the fantastic voyage. It was the vacation that I'd been needing for weeks. Now it's time to focus. The Q-exam is in one week and classes start in 10 days or so. Where or where has the summer gone?
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