So You Think You Can Dance!!

If you know me at all (which most of you do), you know that my favorite show of the year is So You Think You Can Dance. Its kind of like American Idol, but for dancers...and a thousand times better. The show is only one once a year, in the summer, and I literally count down the days to the season premiere of each year. I LOVE the show!

If you know me, you also know that I get very into TV shows. So You Think You Can Dance is no different. I fall in love with the people as well as the dances. Thankfully, each year the top 10 dancers go on tour performing their best dances from the season. I went to see the tour 2 years ago but couldn't afford it last year. This season was my favorite season so far, so I knew I HAD to see the show live. Unfortunately, this was also the first year they didn't come to Philly!!

Thankfully, they did have a show in Chicago, and my roommate from last summer, Brooke, just happens to live just outside of Chicago. I called her when tickets went on sale and she said she would definitely be interested in going to the show. Our friend Ashley (who also lived with me for a while last summer) doesn't live far from Chicago either and also said she wanted to go. So, I bought the tickets and we made plans for a girls weekend in Chicago.

If I thought the excitement of the show was a lot to take, the excitement of the LIVE show coupled with a girls weekend with 2 of my favorite people in the world was almost too much to take!! Thankfully, there wasn't a lot of time between the cruise and my Chicago trip (less than a month), so I survived. Barely...

So, last weekend I flew to Chicago for a weekend of awesomeness!! Ashley, Brooke and I screamed when we saw each other and had non stop fun all weekend long...even when we got into long, somewhat confusing, political discussions. We are all strong, single women who love people and love the Lord...we're like Charlie's Angels, haha!! :)

So, Friday night was the show. All 3 of us were SO excited. It took us forever to figure out how to get around Chicago (their maps were not helpful), but we made it to the show and screamed our way through our favorite dances and even getting to see all of our favorite dancers perform solos. I could have gone home right after the show and still had an amazing weekend!! Thankfully, we still had a full day of fun to go!!

We left the show and again took forever to get back to the hotel. Chicago is not an easy city to maneuver around. Plus, we didn't get a chance to eat before the show so we were starving by the time it was over. We couldn't find ANYTHING open in the city, but did find a 24 hour burger stand across the street from our hotel. Grease never tasted so good! :)

Saturday was spent touring the city (thankfully Brooke and Ashley had been there before so they at least knew what to visit). We saw some cool stuff, but really just laughed a lot and really enjoyed one another. I didn't want the weekend to ever end. We are apparently getting old, though, because by about 10 p.m., we were exhausted. We went back to the hotel, got some dessert from the restaurant next door and went to sleep after watching a little bit of Saturday Night Live.

Sunday was a VERY boring day for me, at least after we all separated. I had a 4 hour wait in the Chicago airport, and that airport is NOT fun. I did get to read, and I can't complain because the rest of the weekend was so amazing. I REALLY love those girls and didn't want to leave them. I was kinda ready to get back to Philly, but I wanted them to come with me. :)