Chicago's weather was perfect!! Not a single drop of rain! Everyone said I was lucky to experience such a nice weather in crazy Chicago! On some days, I even felt it's warmer than our city here in CA!!
There, I got the chance to see all my relatives! I've even met my second cousins for the very fist time in my life! Big gatherings were really nice...It's never calm over there, especially with all the kids hanging around, playing, running, screaming, eating and crying! I still can't believe I was there for a whole week...it passed by so fast, but I enjoyed it to the max:)Once my uncle picked me up from the airport and drove me to his place, I noticed the biggest difference between Chicago and California...The landscape! There, you can barely go up and down while driving...Here in CA, it's all mountains...wherever you go, wherever you drive, it's just like driving on the streets of Amman.
I also noticed that While driving in Chicago, you can see a lot of empty green spaces around you, while here in CA, it's more packed...and whatever green you see is from the evergreen trees and not the grass around!
Flying above the 2 states would be enough to notice these differences!
I drove my uncle's car few times there, and to be honest I didn't like it there...especially not being able to do a U-turn whenever you want and having to jump from one side to the other instead!
I did some shopping there, stayed home most of the time, relaxing, not having any kind of chores...no cooking, no laundry...nothing! I needed such a trip so bad...I have a big family over there...uncles and cousins in all ages...that i know I'm going to miss now...
We had a great BBQ at my uncle's on my second day there...and on my last day
, we went to downtown and took the sky ride to Sears tower, which was amazing!! I wish we did some walking there, but it was too windy for the kids, and I was wearing a skirt, which makes it a really bad idea to walk around :pI've been to Chicago 11 years ago, and stayed there for 40 days...but it was on summer time...really hot weather and high humidity...I'm just glad it had been perfect this time:)
Jeeej's trip back f
rom Germany was one hour before mine...so he was waiting for me to get out of the gate with a big smile on his face...I missed him so much, and life isn't easy without him around. It feels really good that we are still sharing our stories from our trips. He had a great time in Germany...Nice hotel, nice company..nice food, nice Munich and above all a very nice Porsche he rented and drove over there, reaching a speed his own Honda Accord wont reach over here!! He said, he reached 285 Km/hr driving on their highway!! Now isn't that really nice?!??! Thank God I wasn't there with him...I'm just glad he took Azeeezehwith him to give him right directions to the places he went to...
We are back home now...Unpacking for two wasn't easy at all...and going to work the very next day was even harder..Doing laundry between my classes was drivin
g me crazy...Grocery shopping was so fast. I was craving for stuffed zucchini but had no time to core it so I ended up cutting it into pieces and cooking it with ground beef in tomato sauce and I served it with white rice...It came out great:DI missed home, I missed my life here, I missed my blog and my favourite blogs too! I had the chance to check them all over there, but I did my best to stay away from the Internet as much as I could...to enjoy time there...to the Max:)
