greater little rock church

looks like I like quizzes but I couldn't stop myself one last time. Is this really not Jamaica??? It surely looks like it. With all the colors, tacky paintings, broken clocks and a fluorescent cross at the altar.
When you enter this church on 834 Armitage Av in Chicago you need to wipe the safe familiarity of the Western civilization the way you wipe your shoes. There's no place for distancing yourself from what's happening in the church. You're supposed to sing, clap your hands, give testimonies of how good Lord's been to ya to let you wake up one more time, and nod in agreement. Fine, it helped them thru the shitty times in the South, a meeting point, safe from the master's supervision, but will it get them thru the 21st century Chicago?
I took off for a nearby Starbucks after half an hour.

butterflies, more butterflies, nature museum

Do I really want to know what those two are up to?
Nature Museum had one thing I liked and that was its butterfly room, it was pretty amazing, no, it actually was amazing to walk into a room full but I mean teeming with butterflies, all colors, all sizes.
Now comes a quiz: who knew butterflies had tongues? I didn't until one huge butterfly decided to keep me company and sit on my arm and that's when I saw it, long, black, rolled up like a cinnamon roll. I don't think you can see it in this picture what you can do, though is go to the Nature Museum and see for yourself.
It's also worth a visit because of what's on the way, and I don't mean the nearby marina.
I mean St. Joseph's hospital. I wish I could say to all architecture lovers 'You're in for a treat, guys." I can't really, unless you have a very peculiar taste. See why: like that, huh? It is one of those buildings my dad would surely appreciate (anyone who's seen my house in Warsaw knows what I'm talking about), if you wanted to use an euphemism I guess you could say it's eclectic in its style, to me it was a genuine 'mood-perker', you just can't pass it and not smile.

margie's candies

for how many people, four? it's gonna be a twenty-minute wait
neeee... twenty minutes? we're not waiting. we'll have it to go

what we didn't know was that it's faster to sit in than to carry out. after a half hour wait this hot caramel banana split eaten with a plastic spoon out of a silo container tasted even better

$ 4.95 including a sentimental trip to 'good old times' from decades ago

chicago hasn't been treating us too well this year when it comes to its crazy weather but if that's how it's gonna repay us for weeks of nervous forecast checking and cursing then i'm willing to forgive it