Favorite of Chicago: (missed) skating rink at wrigley

I missed my moment to go skating at Wrigley! So sad. It opened up right after Christmas when Julia and my mom were here and I promised myself I would go, but to no avail. I think this is turning into the winter of would've's because I also had wanted to build a snowman. Ask Mike, Brynn or Popa about when I went back to Ohio because I was dead set on each day going out there to see if it was good enough packing snow! Now, the rink closed yesterday, February 28th, and won't be open for another year.

There have been many things I have been able to do this winter though and for that I am grateful. I finally had dinner the other night at Smith and Wollensky with Mike (staff and food was awful but the view and my date were amazing!). I have been wanting to go there as I love steak and have now had dinners and almost all of the food steakhouses in Chicago. Supposedly, S & W was "the" place to go as it is right on the river and the food is excellent. However, I was unimpressed. They sat us in this cool corner right on the water, but then because it was in the corner, our waitress..who was a bit overweight...could not manage to squeeze through the tables to get to us. Needless to say, this caused a bit of an issue. Overall, I do not recommend as it is the same price as Joe's or Ruth Chris' and both of those are top notch.