this is where i will be in 7 hours. chicago. home sweet home.
and on friday, as is tradition, my family (including matt this year!) will take the train downtown to look at the windows at marshall field's, to wander state street and michigan avenue, to do some christmas shopping, to eat lunch at the top of the saks fifth avenue center and to visit at least two william sonoma stores...and maybe we'll stop at borders and battle the crowds, or get ice cream sundaes at ghirardelli...
and we might even drive into the city the night of christmas itself to look at the lights decorating the city...
i love this place. :)
yea, chicago! yea!!! chicago loves melissa! i love this place, too.
ReplyDeleteI still prefer this place, but I'm just a small town boy in comparison. What do I know?
ReplyDeleteChicago is a wonderful town! Why did you not go to McCormick and stay there instead of going to Princeton and living in NJ?
ReplyDeleteI'm Lutheran, so if I had stayed in Chicago, I would have gone to the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. There are a few reasons I ended up at Princeton:
ReplyDelete1. when I started seminary, I wasn't sure that I wanted to be ordained, so I really wanted a school with a program that had room for a more academic, rather than vocational bent (not that LSTC doesn't have an academic focus!).
2. I love youth ministry, and PTS has a dual degree program where I could spend an extra year and get my MA in youth ministry (I have since opted out of that program because I got married and am not working around my husband's career aspirations in addition to my own.)
3. Hrm. I loved PTS when I visited, and for a short time I thought it might be interesting to leave my hometown area...I have since learned that even if I'm not in Chicago, I really would rather be in the midwest than out east.
Yeah...that's about it. :)