The First College Visit and a Baseball Game

It's kind of early for this sort of thing, but as long as we were in Chicago we thought we'd visit a couple of colleges. Today we went to the University of Chicago. What a coincidence that it's here! (Like Eddie Izzard says about the Pilgrims, amazing that they left from Plymouth and landed in Plymouth). Pretty amazing place. Wish I'd gone there instead of where I actually went. The tour guide talked for 90 minutes straight and then the admissions woman talked for another hour. It's a terrific school and they have lots of words there.

We ate lunch at a bakery/cafe that's apparently a favorite of Barack Obama. Good stuff.

The game was at the snappily named U.S. Cellular Field. In the baseball stadium biz it's known as the place where the architects that designed most of the great new stadia (that's Latin for ya) made all their mistakes. No sh-t. It's completely characterless and you can't get in the place. If you take the subway to the game (which you should), to enter at ground level you have to walk all the way to the far end of the stadium. After an outcry, they retrofitted it with a raised pedestrian bridge, so you can get in close to the subway, but only from across the street. Very weird. The game was no snappier than the name, but I'm glad I got to see the place.