Cold but Happy

I spent New Year's weekend in Chicago and had a blast. Despite the freezing cold! It's always the misadventures that you remember and smile over days later. Like when we waited out in the cold for about half an hour in a vain attempt to get into Crobar (after champagne toasts at another party) and finally gave up when we realized that we were getting too old to wait on anybody. Guess we were too cheap to shell out the "two and a quarter" that it would take for us to get bottle service and gain immediate admission. As we walked to G's warm car, we felt a little sorry for the people huddled together in their cocktail dresses and the drunk people walking barefoot because they couldn't get a cab. Why do people think it's okay to be out in the cold without a coat or any kind of protection just because its NYE? And when our next stop was far from full, enough so we could feel a cold draft in the air, we took it all in stride and still managed to end on a happy note. Total money spent: $20 for club admission for two people (regular admission was $35 per person). We made the most of that and the next two nights. I do believe that the fun we had at Wild Hare on our last night more than made up for all of our misadventures.