Donnaville is back up. It’s not unusual for the site to go down. That is what happens when you use an $18.00/year hosting service.

At any rate, Lisa and I walked the Magnificent Mile yesterday and bumped into THE LEAD SINGER OF THE BLUES TRAVELER!!! He has really slimmed down but he is still a big guy. He was with a very petite blond-haired lady. I now regret that Lisa and I didn’t follow them just to see where they were going. Certainly they were headed somewhere exciting and we could have piggy backed off their apparent knowledge of all things cool and had a great adventure. Instead, some tourists distracted us by asking us for bandaids to use on their blistered feet. Lisa and I are both size 11 and intimately familiar with squeezing our feet into shoes that are too small and so we gave them some bandaids that we big-footed gals always keep in our purses. It wasn’t until “THE LEAD SINGER OF THE BLUES TRAVELER” was far past us that we realized we should have trailed him. I wish I knew the guy’s name. Lisa kept calling him Joe Cocker but I assured her that was definitely not his name. Lisa said, “What do you know!” I wish I had someone with me at the time that could have sided with me, but I didn’t and so to keep the peace I said, “Yeah, his name is Joe Cocker, you are right, I was just messing with your head.”

We ate dinner at Wildfire which is a restaurant on Erie that Oprah once owned. I have been there a few times and I was excited to have Lisa taste their fabulous horseradish crusted filet. She liked it. We ate dessert a few hours later at Maggiano’s. The portions were HUGE! On my plate there wasn’t so much a slice but rather a half of a Boston Cream Pie. Too bad there is no such thing as a Chicago Cream Pie.

The night before we went to Sushi Samba! Instead of ordering the paella as I did the last time, we ordered tapas and sushi rolls. This time the portions were tiny and the price outrageous. It’s strange how that works out. After dinner we went to the Signature Lounge and had drinks and dessert.

It was great having Lisa with me for the week. She got to see the life I lead away from home and I got me some company. Too bad her job isn’t more flexible because we could do this type of thing more often. Oh well. If she ever decided to actually teach, she would have the entire summer free. STOP. DON’T GO THERE.