Love is in the air

I have had a wonderful weekend (and first half of the week)! I went to a ballet with my supervisor on Friday night. It was a medley of different ballets and was wonderful! The theater was beautiful and we had amazing seats- orchestra level. Bruce arrived on Saturday morning. I was so excited to see him get off the train! We went to Chinatown for dinner Saturday night. Bruce was really happy when we found Koala Yummies in one of the small shops. We met up with Jeff, Bruce's best friend, on Sunday. We then decided to spend the rest of the afternoon downtown. It was a good thing we did because we ended up meeting up with a few friends from Ripon. After having a smoothie at Cosi, we all went to Millenium Park. Bruce and I decided to head back to my apartment. I went to my internship for a couple of hours on Monday and then Bruce and I went to Big Tony's for lunch. We had an amazing pizza, right in Logan Square! I took a mental health day today. Bruce and I did some homework here and watched TV. Our friend Perfecto came over and took us to his favorite Puerto Rican restaurant in Humboldt Park. We had jibaritos, which are tasty sandwiches made with fried plantanes for the bread, lettuce, tomato, sour cream, and meat (I had chicken and the boys had steak). I'm really glad Perfecto showed me this restaurant; I never would have found it on my own!

It has been really great to have Bruce here. I really enjoyed showing him my neighborhood and some of the other places that I enjoy in the city and just spending time with him. He was really excited to see "real Chicago," not just the museums. I will miss him when he goes home tomorrow. I love him very much. I'm so glad that he got to visit me.