A few of my favourite things...

Building upon the list of things that S made - here's my list:

Things that I'll miss in Chicago

Chicago, Our new friends, Navy Pier, Krispy Kreme, Great Grains Crunchy Pecans breakfast cereal, StarBucks, Barnes and Noble bookstores, Borders bookstores, Harvest Bible Chapel, Best Buy stores, Circuit City stores, Comp USA stores, snow, WMBI, Chevy's mexican restaurant, Olive Garden restaurant, The Mag Mile, self-serve and payment counters at grocery stores, Woodfield Mall, Apple stores, Uno's deep-dish Chicago pizza, Millenium Park, Chicago highways, The gym at work, Free Amazon shipping, Friday night eating out, No house maintenance jobs, Column-shift cars, Cheap petrol, The NBA, Major League Baseball, The NFL, The absence of revenue-raisers speed cameras on every road, polite staff at restaurants and stores, Old Navy.

Things I'm looking forward to in Adelaide

Adelaide, Friends and Family, No tolls or potholes on the roads, Driving on the correct side of the road, OBC, Cadbury chocolate, Haighs chocolate, Adelaide Central Market, Farmers Union Iced Coffee, LinuxSA, Froggy Cakes, Talking to people who say car-a-mel, not car-mel :-), Only having 6 channels of TV to choose from, Enclosed shopping centres, A sane affordable medical system, 50F (10C) minimum daytime temperatures in winter, No need to scrape ice from the car windscreen in the morning, Indian restaurants, Australian wood-oven pizza, No tipping, Adelaide Zoo, Kangaroos, Koalas, and Emus, Babysitters :-), Plastic money, Aussie Rules Football, The Redlegs, living in a city of only 1 million people.

| 17 Mar 2005 | #